Residents in northern Tulcea county received a new RO-ALERT message on Thursday morning warning of a possible drone incursion amid the war launched by Russia in Ukraine, the second such alert since the start of the day.
The message was sent at around 8:35, and the authorities urged residents to remain calm and seek shelter, agerpres reports.
"If there is no shelter available, stay indoors, away from windows and external walls," according to the RO-ALERT message sent by the Inspectorate General for Emergency Situations (IGSU) following a notification from the National Military Command Centre of the Ministry of National Defence (MApN).
After the first RO-ALERT message of the day, the MApN announced that, at 1:34, its radar surveillance system had detected a group of aerial targets near Snake Island, and that a drone had been detected in national airspace for around one minute, above the territorial waters of the Black Sea, before disappearing.
"Two F-18 aircraft belonging to the Spanish Air and Space Force, performing Enhanced Air Policing Service, took off from 57th Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base. (...) Subsequently, following the detection of other aerial targets approximately 77 km east of Snake Island, two F-16 aircraft belonging to the Romanian Air Force took off from 86th Fetesti Air Base. The National Military Command Centre notified the Inspectorate General for Emergency Situations to implement measures to alert the population in northern and eastern Tulcea county, and a RO-ALERT message was sent at 4:57. No further incursions into national airspace were reported," the MApN release mentioned.
