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Romania became the first NATO member to shoot down an unauthorized drone over its own airspace on Friday — and then did it again on Saturday morning, in back-to-back intercepts that mark a sharp escalation in the spillover of Ukraine’s air war into Alliance territory. Romanian Defence Minister Radu Miruta confirmed that a Romanian Air Force F-16 engaged and destroyed a drone that had “illegally entered Romanian airspace” at 8:34 a.m. local time Saturday, approximately 9.6 kilometers west of Sfantu Gheorghe in the Danube Delta near the Ukrainian border. “The drone was detected by Ministry of National Defence radars entering our airspace at 8:22 and was struck a few minutes later,” Miruta posted on Facebook.
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