Romania scrambles fighter jets after drone breaches airspace

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00:00It was two F-16 fighter jets like these that detected a drone in Romania's airspace.

00:05The Romanian Defense Ministry says the jets were patrolling near the border

00:09following Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian infrastructure.

00:13At 1823, F-16 aircraft detected a drone in national airspace,

00:18which they tracked to approximately 20 kilometers southwest of Chile Avece,

00:23where it disappeared from radar.

00:24The drone did not fly over populated areas

00:27and did not pose an imminent danger to the safety of the population.

00:32It's the second breach of NATO airspace in just a matter of days

00:35after Poland said it shot down several Russian drones earlier in the week.

00:40In response, the alliance is beefing up its defenses with a new operation dubbed Eastern Sentry,

00:45which aims to reinforce its eastern border with Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

00:49The US has also vowed to defend every inch of NATO territory.

00:53It shouldn't have happened. I don't think anybody's happy about it seeing happen.

00:56You saw NATO respond to it appropriately.

00:58We don't want to see it happen again.

01:00We think it's an unacceptable and unfortunate and dangerous development in this regard.

01:08With tensions high, Poland's Lublin airport temporarily closed on Saturday

01:12after a drone alert was issued.

01:14Meanwhile, Russia and Belarus are pressing on with their joint operations near the Polish border.

01:19Known as ZAPAD-2, the two countries had already carried out similar exercises back in 2021,

01:25just months before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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