Romania claims Russian missile flew 35 km northeast of its border

Romania’s National Defence Ministry has provided details of an incident with the Russian missile that allegedly crossed into its airspace on Friday.

The relevant statement was made by G4Media.ro, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“The air surveillance system of the Romanian Air Force detected on Friday, February 10, an aerial target launched from the Black Sea from a ship of the Russian Federation near the Crimean Peninsula, most likely a cruise missile, which evolved in the airspace of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and re-entered Ukrainian airspace without crossing, at any time, the airspace of Romania,” the report states.

According to the ministry, the closest point of the target’s trajectory to the Romanian airspace was recorded by radar systems at about 35 kilometers northeast of the border.

Romanian authorities have applied all standard procedures from the moment the target was detected and until the situation has been fully clarified, the ministry noted.

Additionally, at 10:38 a.m., two MiG-21 LanceR aircraft of the Romanian Air Force of the NATO-led Air Police combat service, which were on an exercise flight at the time, were diverted to the northern part of Romania to supplement the response options.

A reminder that Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi stated earlier that, on February 10, 2023, two Russian Kalibr-type cruise missiles crossed the state border between Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, and entered Romania’s airspace. After that, they re-entered the airspace of Ukraine at the crossing point of the borders of the three states. The missiles were fired by Russia from the Black Sea.

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