Two F-16 jets in eastern Romania were "scrambled on an Air Policing mission to monitor the air situation near the border with Ukraine, following Russian strikes on Ukrainian Danube infrastructure" at 6:05 pm Saturday local time, per a statement from the Romanian defense ministry. The F-16 "detected and tracked" the drone in Romania's airspace from 6:23 pm and radar contact was lost some 12 miles from the small community of Chilia Veche, according to the defense ministry, which emphasized that the drone did not fly over populated areas and "did not pose an imminent threat to the civilian population."
About two-thirds of Romania's diaspora are economic migrants, contributing significantly to the economy through remittances, and many feel politically neglected and invisible.