The drone crossed into Romanian airspace at around 4 a.m. local time in the Gura Portiţei area but the combat aircraft did not have visual contact with the target at any point, and the radar signal was lost half an hour later, south of Cogealac, News.ro reported, according to a translation.

NATO troops would already be deployed in Ukraine if Russia did not have a nuclear arsenal, according to the chairman of the alliance's military committee. Speaking at a defense summit in Prague on Sunday,

The German Air Force said the Russian aircraft was flying without a flight plan and the transponder was off in the latest such incident.