NATO has been forced to scramble its F-16 fighter jets after a Russian attack breached Romanian airspace.
The nation’s defence ministry said a drone had entered across the border after Vladimir Putin launched an onslaught on neighbouring Ukraine.
APNato has been forced to scramble its F-16 fighter jets after a Russian attack breached Romanian airspace[/caption]
The country scrambled two F-16 fighter jets late on Saturday to monitor the situation following the strikes, a defence ministry statement confirmed.
They “detected a drone in national airspace” and tracked it until it disappeared from the radar near the Romanian village of Chilia Veche.
Nato acted swiftly to the alert after the group vowed to defend “every inch” of allied land earlier this week.
It came after Kremlin drones invaded Polish airspace – forcing Warsaw to shoot them down and trigger Nato Article 4, just one below the threshold of war.
Poland’s Prime Minster Donald Tusk said 19 Russian drones sailed across the border amid an onslaught against western Ukraine, taking his country to the “closest to conflict since WW2”.
He said four were shot down by Nato fighter jets – understood to be from Poland, Italy, the Netherland the US – and officials later said seven had been found on the ground.
This is the first time since the outbreak of war that Nato has directly clashed with Russia, though jets have been scrambled many times without engaging.
Kremlin spokespeople have denied there is any evidence the drones were Russian, and even outrageously implied they had been launched by Kyiv.
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