LONDON — Two German fighter jets have been scrambled to the Romanian-Ukrainian border on Tuesday evening in response to a Russian drone assault within the frontier area, Romania’s Protection Ministry mentioned in a press release.
Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned Russia launched 93 drones and two ballistic missiles into the nation in a single day, of which 62 drones and one missile have been shot down or suppressed. The air pressure reported drone and missile impacts throughout 20 areas.
Oleg Kiper, the pinnacle of the regional Odesa administration, mentioned drones hit infrastructure and manufacturing services within the metropolis of Izmail on the Danube river, on the border with Romania — a NATO member.
Fires broke out on the web site of the assaults and a minimum of one individual was injured, Kiper mentioned.
Firefighters work on the web site of a gasoline storage facility hit by a Russian drone strike within the Odesa area of Ukraine on Aug. 20, 2025.
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The assault prompted the scrambling of two German Air Drive Storm fighters “to observe the air scenario within the border space with Ukraine, within the north of Tulcea County,” Romania’s Protection Ministry mentioned in a press release posted to social media.
The German plane are at the moment deployed to Romania as a part of NATO’s Enhanced Air Policing missions, which have been launched alongside the bloc’s japanese flank after Russia’s seizure of Crimea and elements of japanese Ukraine in 2014.
Romania’s “aerial surveillance system” recognized “teams of drones launched by the Russian Federation that attacked Ukrainian ports on the Danube,” the ministry mentioned. “In the course of the mission, there have been no penetrations of plane within the nationwide airspace.”
Allied plane are sometimes scrambled in NATO nations like Poland and Romania in response to Russian long-range assaults in Ukraine, which frequently goal areas alongside Ukraine’s border with its NATO neighbors.
A German Eurofighter Storm jet performs throughout an exhibition flight demonstration on the Worldwide Paris Air Present in Le Bourget, France, on June 18, 2025.
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Throughout earlier assaults, Russian drones and missiles have entered NATO airspace. Crashed Russian munitions or fragments of them have been present in Romania, Lithuania and Latvia. Russian missile fragments have additionally been present in Moldova, which borders Ukraine to the southwest however will not be a NATO state. NATO member Poland has additionally reported a number of violations of its airspace by Russian missiles and drones.
Russia’s Protection Ministry, in the meantime, mentioned its forces shot down a minimum of 42 Ukrainian drones in a single day into Wednesday morning.
Momentary restrictions in flights have been launched at airports in Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Tambov and Nizhny Novgorod in the course of the in a single day strikes, Russia’s federal air company Rosaviatsiya mentioned.
