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Nato Scrambles RAF Jets over Russia Drone Swarm — Then Walks Back the Engagement
Romania said the drone caused property damage and cut gas supplies, while 200 people were evacuated and British fighter jets scrambled.
- On Saturday, a Russian drone crashed in the Romanian city of Galati, forcing authorities to evacuate 200 residents as a precaution while two British Royal Air Force fighter jets scrambled to the area.
- The crash occurred amid a massive Russian air campaign, with the Ukrainian air force reporting 619 drones and 47 missiles launched over 20 hours as Russia shifted from nightly raids to periodic daytime strikes.
- Relentless barrages pounded Ukraine's central-eastern city of Dnipro, killing six people and wounding 47, as Mayor Borys Filatov described it as 'the largest-scale attack on Dnipro.'
- Romanian President Nicusor Dan stated this is 'the first incident where Romanian property has actually been damaged, a threshold we take very seriously,' and authorities summoned the Russian ambassador in response.
- Visiting Azerbaijan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for a stronger international response, urging implementation of political agreements to strengthen air defense and prevent the war from being overshadowed by other conflicts.
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Nato scrambles RAF jets over Russia drone swarm — then walks back the engagement
A sequence of contradictory official statements from Romania and Britain over the weekend left Nato allies, Moscow and the world uncertain about what was claimed to be the first use of Nato military assets to bring down Russian drones in Ukraine.
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The series of drone incidents in Romania has reached a new level: while previously Russian drone remains were typically found in sparsely populated border areas in the Danube Delta, this is the first time a drone, presumably carrying an explosive charge, has crashed into a residential area of a Romanian city. The incident in the city of Galati resulted in the evacuation of several hundred people, the closure of an entire neighborhood, the suspen…
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