Romanian radars first picked up an 'aerial target' on the border with Ukraine at around 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Bucharest said.
Two Romanian F-16s responded to at least one unidentified target over NATO territory on Wednesday, with investigations ongoing into at least the third violation of alliance airspace in the country within a week.Romania's Defense Ministry said in a statement that its military radars had detected an unspecified 'aerial target' along the border between Romania and Ukraine at around 8:45 p.m. local time on Wednesday.
and the F-16s returned to their base, according to Bucharest.The government is launching investigations around the two areas where its systems lost radar signals, and is checking whether an object landed on Romanian territory.On Saturday, Bucharest said radars had picked up a 'small air target' around 28 miles east of the village of Sfântu Gheorghe on the Black Sea coast, heading for Romanian territory.
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