Parts of a Russian drone had fallen on Romanian territory, the Romanian defense minister Angel Tilvar said on Wednesday, the HotNews website reported citing Antena 3 CNN.
Kyiv said on Monday Russian drones had detonated on Romanian territory, a claim Bucharest denied at the time.
Russian air strikes took place less than one kilometer from Romania’s border with Ukraine on Tuesday, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said, amid intense attacks on the Ukrainian port of Izmail.
“We had attacks just today, the minister of defense told me, which were verified at 800 meters from our border. So very, very close,” said Iohannis, speaking in a joint press conference with Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.
“I can tell you no piece, no drone and no part of a device landed in Romania,” he added, according to a translation from Romanian broadcaster Digi TV.
“I can tell you no piece, no drone and no part of a device landed in Romania.”
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis
Moscow has mounted long-range air strikes on targets in Ukraine since the start of its invasion last year. Since July, when Moscow abandoned a deal that lifted a de facto Russian blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, it has repeatedly struck Ukrainian river ports that lie across the Danube from Romania.
Weapons may have impacted neighboring countries
Ukraine has reported suspected Russian weapons flying over or crashing into neighbors, including NATO members, several times during the war.
In the most serious incident, two people were killed in Poland by a missile that fell near the border last November. Poland and NATO allies later said it was a misfired Ukrainian air defense missile.
