Romania Evacuates Constanta Port After Sea Drone Self-Detonates
Ukrainian officials said Russian electronic warfare knocked the vessel off course, and Romanian authorities evacuated more than 1,300 people as a precaution.
- A maritime drone used in the Ukraine war self-detonated near an oil terminal at Romania's Constanta Port without causing casualties, prompting evacuation and coastal alerts by Romanian authorities.
- The drone lost control after Russian electronic warfare disruption, with Ukraine alerting Romania, which allowed precautionary evacuations of over 1,000 people and area security measures.
- This drone explosion followed a Russian drone incident a week earlier that injured two people in the Romanian city of Galati, marking the first such attack on a populated area in a NATO state during the war.
- Romanian officials consider the incident a consequence of the Russia-Ukraine war, highlighting increasing security concerns in Romania, which shares a long border with Ukraine and has experienced multiple incursion incidents.
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A Ukrainian Timorese drone used in the war against Russia explot in a Black Sea port in Romania without causing any injuries.
Ukrainian Drone Explodes in Romanian Port, Kyiv Blames Russia
A Ukrainian marine drone exploded in a Romanian port, authorities in Bucharest said, with the Ukrainian navy blaming Russia for the incident. The Romanian Ministry of National Defence said in a June 6 statement that a naval drone observed on the Port of Constanta in the Black Sea self-detonated at 10:30 a.m. local time, without causing casualties. The Ukrainian Naval Forces confirmed that the nautical drone was theirs, blaming Russian jamming fo…
In the EU and NATO state of Romania there was another incident with a drone: A Ukrainian sea drone exploded off the coast of Konstanza. Ukraine said it had been misled by "Russian electronic warfare".
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