MApN forces continue surveillance activities of areas on the national territory in the vicinity of Ukrainian ports, the Army announces in a statement. In the last day, the Romanian military searched for a third drone that was reported to have crashed on the national territory, but they have not found anything for now.
Ships from the river flotilla on the Danube Photo: Ionut Felea / Romanian Naval Forces
“In the last 48 hours, forces and means of the Ministry of National Defense, from the Naval Forces, the Land Forces and from other structures acted with field research teams and aerial surveillance devices on an area of more than 80 square kilometers in the areas the towns of Ceatalchioi, Plauru and Chilia Veche in Tulcea county, and in Galați county, on the Romanian bank of the Danube, near the Reni port in Ukraine. Also, the Naval Forces carry out patrol and monitoring missions on the Chilia branch of the Danube with river vessels”, MApN reported. Following the information received on the afternoon of Saturday, September 9, from the representatives of the local public authorities in Ceatalchioi, which signaled the possible existence of drone fragments in a different area than those investigated so far, located approximately 3.5 kilometers west of the Plauru town, the soldiers of the Marine Infantry Regiment executed, on Saturday, September 9, in the second part of the day, and in the morning of Sunday, September 10, research missions in the field, after which the existence of the reported elements was not confirmed”, says the Army.
“MApN forces remain on alert and will continue investigations in the areas of the national territory located in the vicinity of the locations where the Russian forces are carrying out attacks on the Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Danube. The Ministry of National Defense strongly condemns the attacks carried out by the Russian Federation against some objectives and elements of civil infrastructure in the Ukrainian ports on the Danube. These attacks are unjustified and in serious contradiction with the rules of international humanitarian law, being war crimes.
Also, MApN remains in permanent contact with the allied structures, which are informed in real time”, MApN also transmitted.
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Soldiers from the Romanian Naval Forces discovered new fragments of another drone that crashed on Romanian territory on Saturday.
President Klaus Iohannis said that it is “an absolutely unacceptable violation of Romania’s sovereign airspace!”.
Also on Saturday, the chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Bucharest was urgently summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a context in which the State Secretary for Strategic Affairs Iulian Fota conveyed the Romanian side’s protest against the violation of Romania’s airspace
The Minister of Defense, Angel Tîlvăr, announced on Wednesday that the first indications that remains that can be associated with drone-type equipment were found in Tulcea County were only found on Tuesday, around 6:00 p.m., and the information provided to President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday, like “no drone” fell in our country, they were correct at the time.
The Romanian Ministry of Defense confirmed on Wednesday that pieces of a Russian drone used in the attacks against the port of Izmail, located 250-300 meters across the Chilia arm, were discovered on Romanian territory.
NATO has no indication that the drone fragments found on Romanian territory were caused by an intentional attack launched by Moscow against our country, the head of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Thursday.
In the latest MApN communication on Thursday, the ministry claims that Russia’s latest series of kamikaze drone attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube was monitored “in real time”.
2023-09-10 15:54:00
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