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European Observatory of Drone Incidents

incidents
408
confirmed by an authority
201
attributed
4
countries
27

The observatory records what is reported and what authorities state. “Confirmed” means an official authority has stated it, not that public physical evidence exists.

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European Observatory of Drone Incidents

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European Observatory of Drone Incidents

Methodology

What is recorded

The European Observatory of Drone Incidents records drone incidents in Europe: unmanned aircraft that fly over a facility, enter an airspace from outside or disrupt the operation of an airport.

It covers all European soil, also outside the continent: the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and the peñones (Spain); the Azores and Madeira (Portugal); Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion, Mayotte and Saint Martin (France); Gibraltar and the Akrotiri and Dhekelia bases in Cyprus (United Kingdom); Greenland (Denmark) and Svalbard (Norway). Each territory counts as the country it belongs to. The map opens on Europe: overseas incidents show when you zoom out or filter by country.

Map borders and names follow the position of the European Union.

Drones only. Balloons, missiles, crewed aircraft, laser pointers and signal interference without a drone are not recorded, and neither are authorised flights or accidents involving a force's own drones during exercises.

Each incident is placed as an area, a point with a radius, because the exact position is almost never known. If the source only names the country, the region or the sea, the incident is drawn with its own approximate-location marker (a hollow ring with a dot) at the centre of that area, and its record says the level and where it comes from. If the source does not allow an incident to be placed precisely, it is published at country level with an approximate location. Every piece of data keeps who says it: for each source we store the fact, a short source sentence in its own language and the link, never the full text.

Types

Airport disruption
An airport closes or has flights diverted, cancelled or delayed. When it applies, this type takes precedence over the others.
Incursion
The drone enters from outside the country and its origin is proven by tracking or by debris. A sighting with no proven origin is never an incursion.
Overflight
Any other drone flight over a facility or a town.

Statuses

Reported
The news reports it. It is the initial status of every incident. In orange.
Confirmed
An authority states that the incident happened. In red. “Confirmed” means that an official authority has stated it, not that public physical evidence exists.
Attributed
A confirmed incident for which a competent authority (government, ministry, armed forces, prosecutor or police) expressly states, in its own words, who is responsible: a State or a person. A news report saying so without the authority's own words is not enough, nor is an authority investigating, examining a possible link, not ruling it out, finding it possible or suspecting it: that goes in the record as an investigation under way and the incident stays confirmed. The perpetrator is never the authority making the statement. A person only if the authority has arrested, charged or convicted them, and their name only if the authority gives it. If an attribution no longer holds, it is withdrawn with a step in the history saying why. On the map, a circle with a thick red ring, larger than an incident's and drawn on top of everything, centred on the place: inside, the flag of the country the authority attributes it to, the State or the person's nationality (the latter only if the authority states it expressly; it is never inferred from the name, the place or the language). With no country, or a country without a flag on the site, the ring is filled red. When attributed to a person, it also has a fixed dark dot in the centre. The flag is the one the authority gives, not a claim by the observatory. Several attributed incidents together when zooming out are one marker with its number; if they belong to different countries, it is filled red, without a flag. The record shows it as “Confirmed · attributed to…”, with who attributes it and to whom.
Denied
An authority denies the incident. It stays published, with the reason. Only another authority of equal or higher reliability can return it to confirmed.

Authorities that contradict each other. If two official authorities say opposite things about the same event, the one competent for the airspace (the air navigation service provider, the civil aviation authority, the armed forces) or for the investigation (the police, the prosecutor, the investigating body) prevails. What the other one said stays in the history, with its date and source, and the next step says why the competent one prevails. An airport operator does not monitor the airspace or investigate: saying it received no report does not deny what air traffic control confirms (Brussels, 12 September 2026: skeyes detected the drone; Brussels Airport said it had no record of it). If the one that denies it is the competent one, the incident is denied.

In the scoreboard, “confirmed by an authority” includes the attributed incidents, which are also counted on their own, and leaves out those whose drone presence is not substantiated or ruled out (see “Drone presence”), which still count as incidents. Status is always shown with both colour and text. A circle that groups several incidents is red if it holds any confirmed or attributed incident, purple if there is none and one is not substantiated, and orange if all are reported; an outer purple ring means one has its drone presence not substantiated, and a grey one, ruled out.

Drone presence

Event status says whether the incident happened; drone presence says whether the authority attributes it to a drone. If the competent authority takes it as a fact, it is confirmed: it is enough for the airport operator, the air navigation service provider, the police, the armed forces, a ministry, the public prosecutor or the civil aviation authority to act or state that the event was caused by a drone (a closure because of a drone, a drone report it passes on, a police response to a drone). No debris, footage or sensor detection is required. It stays not confirmed if the authority itself leaves it open («possible drone», «unidentified object», «investigating whether it was a drone») or if only the press or witnesses report it.

Not substantiated
An official authority closed its investigation without evidence of the drone, or withdrew its statement without saying it was something else. In purple. It is not a denial: not finding evidence is not the same as proving there was no drone.
Ruled out
An authority says it was something else (a plane, a helicopter): it is the denial of the drone presence, not of the incident. In a filled grey circle, the grey of “Denied”; a denied incident is a dashed ring with no fill.

Neither erases anything. The incident happened even if its cause is later rectified: if an airport closed, it closed. A rectification changes the drone presence, not the incident or its effect (the closure, the diversions, the duration), and nothing disappears from the map: it stays in place with its full history. The event status does not change either: a confirmed incident stays confirmed, with its drone presence not substantiated. In the figures, “confirmed by an authority” leaves out those whose presence is not substantiated or ruled out, which still count as incidents.

The change to not substantiated is only made with an official source and after expert review. The record shows the whole sequence, each step with its date, who states it and the link to its source: “Confirmed on 23/09/2025 by Copenhagen Police · Not substantiated on 25/06/2026 by Copenhagen Police, after the investigation”. A partial official correction is noted in that history without changing the value.

The Liège case shows it. In November 2025 the air navigation service provider halted traffic at the airport after a drone report: the authority attributes the event to a drone and presence is confirmed. The headline of each record says the same as this field: it states the drone when it is confirmed and presents it as possible when it is not.

Admiralty code

Each source carries a two-character code, for example B2. The letter rates the reliability of the source, from A (authority with direct competence) to F (cannot be judged). The number rates the credibility of the information, from 1 (confirmed by independent sources) to 6 (cannot be judged).

A
Official statements from the competent authority.
B
Official statements quoted in a news report, and Ukrainian Air Force reports.
C
News media.
D
Russian Ministry of Defence statements.

Sources rated E and F are not published. When sources give different figures, the record shows the range covered by sources rated A to C.

How news reports are grouped

News reports are read by automatic extraction validated by rules: a record that does not match the schema, or whose source sentence is not in the report, is discarded. Copies of the same story count once and are shown as reprints.

Two reports are the same incident if they refer to the same target, or to points closer than the sum of their radii plus 10 km, and their start times are less than 6 hours apart or, when only the day is known, fall on the same day or the next. More than 12 hours without activity start a new incident. Two closures of the same site on different nights are always two incidents.

An episode links the incidents at two or more targets in the same country during the same night, from 16:00 to 06:00 UTC. On the map they are joined by a thin line.

Official statements quoted

When a news report quotes an authority, the statement is recorded as a source of its own, rated B, with the link to the report that carries it. It confirms the incident if the authority states that it happened, and with it drone presence, unless the authority itself leaves it open; and it denies or attributes the incident if that is what it says.

Nothing is deleted

No record is removed. Every change of status is added to the history with its date and the source behind it, and a denial does not erase what came before. If the change was caused by a source that is not published, the history keeps the change and omits the source.

Sources

European news
Found through the GKG files of GDELT (external link, opens in a new tab) and linked to the original outlet.
Official statements
Police forces, air navigation providers, airports and defence ministries that publish their statements openly.
Ukraine layer
Ukrainian Air Force reports and Russian Ministry of Defence statements. They are claims by a party to the war: each attack aggregates what one of the two sides declares, usually per night, with no other source confirming it.
Places hit, from Russia against Ukraine
Official channels of the Ukrainian regional military administrations and of Kyiv, identified from each one's official website: reliability B, official source.
Places hit, from Ukraine against Russia
The Ukrainian General Staff channel (its claims of strikes on refineries, depots and airfields) and the channels of Russian governors and regional governments linked from their official websites (the damage they admit on their territory). They are parties to the war: reliability C, claim by a party. Areas occupied by Russia always carry their Ukrainian code; authorities installed by Russia are marked as such.
Scoring of a place hit
Messages from the same channel are not independent sources. A single official source gives “probable”; a claim by a party, “possible”. It rises if another independent source confirms it, if both sides say so (at least “probable”) or if the satellite detects a new thermal hotspot at the place, which counts as measured data. The same treatment for both parties. Missiles and bombs in the same messages are not recorded.

Thermal hotspots from satellites

Each declared impact (a drone that exploded or crashed, with its place known to within 10 km) is checked against the thermal anomalies detected by the satellites of NASA FIRMS (external link, opens in a new tab) (VIIRS on Suomi NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21, and MODIS on Terra and Aqua). The mark means there were at least two hotspots within its precision radius (between 2 and 10 km) from the start of the attack until 36 hours after it ended.

Refineries and plants have flares the satellites always see: a hotspot only counts if it is new compared with the previous 30 days or more than four times as powerful as usual for that spot. As some flares go unseen for months, a new hotspot at a spot that already burned in the previous year only counts if it is more than four times as powerful as that spot in the year, unless one satellite pass sees three or more. Low-confidence hotspots are discarded. Impacts known only by region are not assessed; places hit from the regional channels and the General Staff are, except those in the daily front-line reports and FPV attacks, where artillery causes hotspots every day. Nor is a place assessed whose radius burned on half or more of the previous 30 days at many spots: a new hotspot there says nothing.

The satellites pass over each place several times a day and every pass leaves its detections. The mark appears when there is a hotspot: a measured physical fact, a fire within the radius in the attack window, shown alongside what the sources say.

War seen from space

In the war layer, four pieces come from satellites and from the official reports. Before and after images: for each strike with a detected thermal hotspot and for each strike on an installation, the last cloud-free Sentinel-2 (external link, opens in a new tab) image before the attack and the first one after it, cropped over the site in natural colour with the same brightness adjustment. Cloud is measured over the crop itself with ESA's scene classification: an image with 3% cloud or less over the installation is used even if the whole scene is cloudy. A pair is published only if the change can be seen: both images are brought to the same 10 m grid, and the difference of the burn index (bands B8A and B12) and the darkening in natural colour are measured, without clouds, shadows, snow or water, and above what changes in the rest of the crop (season, crops, light). The patch touching an 800 m circle around the strike counts, and the pair is published if it reaches 10 hectares; if the first clear image after the attack does not show it (smoke or thin cloud cover it), the next ones are tried for 15 days. The changed area is outlined and the image is framed on it. Everything from the satellite is switched on with «With satellite»; the corridors, with their own button.

Night lights: after each attack on energy targets (a strike on the power grid or an official regional message naming it), the brightness of the affected cities and regions in the VIIRS day-night band (NOAA-20), from the NOAA open archive (external link, opens in a new tab). Brightness is the city's light above the surrounding background, measured in the same satellite pass (which removes moonlight reflected by the ground); only nights with 70% cloud cover or less count (Open-Meteo, at the time of the pass) with the satellite close to overhead. The reference is the median of the valid nights of the previous three weeks; there is a loss of light when two or more nights of the following week lose half or more, in cities with a reference of 0.5 nW/(cm²·sr) or more. The thresholds were set with 20 documented blackouts from 2024 to 2026, 9 controls and 411 windows without attacks (3 showed a loss).

Permanently reduced street lighting: a city whose brightness stays below 0.5 nW/(cm²·sr) above the background cannot show a blackout with this rule, so it is marked on the map with its own sign instead. It is marked when the median of its last 10 valid nights is below that minimum and, going back month by month (months with 3 valid nights or more), the monthly median stays below it too; a single month above (snow reflects the city light, as in January 2026) does not break the run, two measured months in a row do. Its card gives the date since when (or «at least since» the first night measured), the current brightness and the earliest measured, each the median of 10 valid nights, and the number of nights it is based on. It is computed from all the nights measured by NOAA-20.

Confirmed fire hotspots: of the NASA FIRMS hotspots of the last 24 hours over Ukraine and European Russia, with the same filters as the strike cross-check (refinery flares and plants with habitual heat, low confidence and areas that burn every day, such as front-line cities, are left out), only those within the radius of a reported strike within 36 hours are published. In «With satellite» they count as strikes with a hotspot as soon as they are confirmed, together with those of the historical cross-check. The rest (crop burning, industry, wildfires) are still downloaded and cross-checked, but not drawn.

Attack corridors: arcs from the launch zones named by the Ukrainian Air Force reports (with the point from the deduction engine's zone catalogue) to the regions reached, with the width given by the drones of those attacks in the selected period. For attacks on Russia, whose report gives shoot-downs by region, the arc starts at the point of the Ukrainian border closest to each region and its figure is those shoot-downs.

Route of the incursions

For incidents in Romania, Moldova and Poland where the authority names the places the drone passed, the record draws that route when opened, with the sentence it comes from: the places in order, located with the gazetteer, and a band joining each pair.

Drone type

Each incident says which class of drone it may have been only when there is a basis for it. If an authority names the model (for example, the debris of a Gerbera identified by the army), the record says so and where it comes from. Otherwise the observatory deduces it and shows it separately, as “compatible with”, always with the reasons. When what has been published does not tell the long-range attack drone from the decoy, the record only says “Compatible with a long-range drone of the war (attack or decoy)”, without percentages.

Described features
The sources’ sentences are read for the shape (multirotor, fixed-wing, delta wing), the sound (propeller, combustion engine, jet), the size, lights, the number of aircraft, duration, altitude, speed, time and behaviour (hovering, circling, passing through, in formation). Each feature keeps the literal sentence and its source. What the text does not say is not assumed.
Calculation
It starts from how often each class appears in the cases of the same area (border or inland) where an authority identified the drone. Each feature raises or lowers the classes according to what the performance catalogue says about them, and physical constraints weigh in: the distance to Ukraine, Russia and Belarus (and to the coast) against each class’s range; the wind and temperature at that time and place; duration and altitude against endurance and ceiling; and speed: below 230 km/h, propeller; above 300 km/h, jet; in between it does not decide.
Check
The calculation is repeated with each case of known answer held out (debris and official statements in Romania, Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria and Turkey, and drone encounters classified by the UK Airprox Board) and compared with always saying the most frequent class. Only classes with at least 5 checked cases that beat that reference and give probabilities that hold are published. On 6 October 2026 the propeller long-range attack drone and the long-range decoy pass, at the border. Percentages for each class are only shown if the most likely one doubles the second and, in the cases of known answer where the method said so, it was right at least 8 times in 10 (with 5 cases at least). On 7 October 2026 no border case passes: attack drone and decoy cannot be told apart, so no percentages are shown. What does pass is that it was one of the two: in 22 of 24 cases. The calculated probabilities remain in the data export.
No basis
Without features that weigh in or an entry from outside at the border, without any reason to show, with the drone unconfirmed or with a most likely class that has not passed the check, the row does not appear.

Measured air traffic

For incidents at airports with scheduled flights, the closure is measured with real traffic: the daily archive of adsb.lol (external link, opens in a new tab), an open network of ADS-B receivers. Landings and take-offs by airliners and business jets are counted in 15-minute slots and compared with the same slot on the same weekday of the four previous weeks. A measured closure is a stretch with 30% or less of the usual traffic that matches the incident; its start and end are the last movement before the gap and the first one after.

A diverted flight is one that was descending towards the airport and landed at another, or one that landed at another airport with a flight number that arrived there at that time in previous weeks. A holding flight is one that flew holding patterns, found with the detector of the open traffic library. If the measurement differs from what the sources say, both are shown.

Coverage: each day what adsb.lol sees at each airport is compared with EUROCONTROL's reference IFR flights, and gaps are read at the airports and on the days where half or more is seen. Each gap is checked against the airport's METARs: those explained by the weather (fog, thunderstorm, snow, strong wind or a contaminated runway) are set aside. The measured closure is shown next to the incident it matches.

The record carries the measured closure when the incident is at an airport with scheduled flights, adsb.lol published the full day, coverage at that airport that day is sufficient, there are four weeks of baseline and a gap matches the incident. Every value comes from the measurement; none is estimated.

Live closure detection

Every 80 seconds the positions of aircraft around the monitored airports (those with high coverage on all four days of their baseline in the daily archive) are requested from adsb.lol (external link, opens in a new tab); if it does not answer, the service switches by itself to adsb.fi (external link, opens in a new tab). From those positions arrivals and departures are rebuilt, with the same rules as the measured traffic and a delay of 4 minutes so that each movement is complete, and compared with the median of the same weekday and the same local time over the four previous weeks.

Possible closure in progress
Since the last movement at least 12 expected movements are missing, at most 10 % of them are seen, the shortfall grows by at least 0.5 movements per minute of gap, no aircraft is taking off or landing, all of it for 4 minutes, and no METAR since one hour before explains it (fog, visibility, ceiling, thunderstorm, snow, strong wind or a contaminated runway).
Closure confirmed
An official source or an incident in the database reports the closure.
Operations resumed
At least 2 movements return and half or more of the expected traffic is seen over the last half hour. The alert stays on the map for 12 hours.

Each alert keeps its detection time, its evidence (expected and seen movements, missing arrivals and departures, aircraft holding and diverted flights) and, once it arrives, the time of the first news, which gives the detection's lead. An alert triggers the directed news search; once confirmed, the incident enters the database through the normal flow with the measured closure.

GPS interference

Every ADS-B position carries its integrity (NIC) and accuracy (NACp). An aircraft has a degraded position in a zone on a day if any of its positions there has NIC below 7 or NACp below 8, the minimums of the ADS-B Out rule. Zones are H3 hexagons at resolution 4 (about 1,770 km²), the grid of gpsjam.org. The share of aircraft affected subtracts one degraded aircraft, so that a single faulty unit does not colour the zone: (degraded − 1) / aircraft.

Each zone on the map gathers 20 or more aircraft in the day. Levels: under 2% no interference, 2 to 10% medium and over 10% high, in grey that gets lighter with the share and the high level in red. For a period, aircraft and degraded aircraft are added up per zone over each day (each month for periods longer than 7 days). It is computed on the server from the daily adsb.lol archive. “Europe now” counts the zones with high interference on the latest published day; the layer legend counts, with the same calculation, those of the chosen period.

Pressure by country

Each country is filled in grey by its incidents in the selected period, with the active filters: five steps relative to the country with the most. The trend compares with the previous period of the same length: stable if the difference is zero, or one and no more than 10% of the previous figure; otherwise up or down, with the figure. Tapping a country shows its figures by type and by status and its incidents.

The figures per country count the incidents recorded from what each country's media and authorities publish openly, in the languages the collection reads.

Border or interior

The map shows two different things: war drones crossing or falling near the border with Ukraine, Russia (including Kaliningrad) or Belarus or on the Black Sea coast, and drones over airports, bases and facilities in the interior of Europe. The “Where” filter shows all of them, only those on the eastern border or only those in the rest of Europe; the header figures follow it. In the countries of the eastern flank (bordering Ukraine, Russia or Belarus or with a Black Sea coast), each incident’s card shows its group and the rule that decides it; in the rest of Europe and overseas all are interior and the card does not repeat it.

1. Attack
If the incident is linked to that night’s Russian attack on Ukraine, it is a border incident.
2. Distance
With a point: border if it is 150 km or less from the land border with Ukraine, Russia or Belarus, or 50 km or less from the Black Sea coast; otherwise interior. The cut comes from the data: of the incidents with a point, those in the band reach 144 km (incursions into Poland, Romania and Lithuania) and the next one is at 191 km (Bucharest airport).
3. Named place
Without a point, the same distance from the place in the country named by its locality, its region or its headline; a headline placing it in the Black Sea makes it a border incident.
4. No place
Border if the drone came from outside (incursion, entry from abroad or a state drone) into a country bordering Ukraine, Russia or Belarus or with a Black Sea coast, or if the whole country is 150 km or less from that border (Moldova). Otherwise interior.

Forecast and trends

The “Forecast” button says what is happening more than usual and what is likely to happen. Only what has passed a check against the past is published: each figure is computed with the data before a date and compared with what happened afterwards, moving forward in time, never using future data. It is compared with two simple references, the country’s usual frequency and “tomorrow same as today”, and published only if it does better than both and the improvement holds when the check is repeated with randomly drawn weeks. What does not pass is not shown. With little data nothing is claimed.

Tonight at the border
Probability that a war drone crosses into or falls in the country the next night (at least one border incident that night). It is computed before the night, using only what is already known: the drones launched at Ukraine on average over the last three nights (Ukrainian Air Force reports), how many of the last seven nights had drones launched from Crimea and the country’s border incidents in the previous seven days. It is a logistic regression refitted every month. It is said as “2 in 10 nights like this one (20%)”, with the country’s usual rate (nights with a drone among the nights checked, the same figure as in the check) and the factors that raise or lower today’s risk against their usual value; those that do not change it are not listed. The check says how many of the nights with a drone were among the quarter of nights with the highest risk, and is folded under “How it is checked”. It is shown for each country where it passes the check.
Second night
After a large wave over Ukraine (drones launched reach the 90th percentile of the previous 60 nights), the probability that the next night is large too. It is shown only on those nights and only while its check supports it.
Streaks by country
A country’s normal is the average of its weeks over the last year without the last four. There is a streak when the last four weeks add up to more than normal gives 1 time in 20 (negative binomial with the country’s own dispersion), with at least 3 incidents on 2 or more different days. It counts events, not news: each incident once, on the date it happened. A country with fewer than 5 incidents in its normal year has no streak. It says since when, how many incidents against the usual and whether it is growing (the last two weeks exceed the two before) or fading. The check: after a streak is flagged, the following week looks more like the streak than like normal.
What has changed
The share of each target type among the impacts on Ukraine with a known target (only from the official channels that give impacts in every quarter since January 2025, so that a channel that starts or stops naming places does not change the mix) and the share of each incident type in Europe, over the last three closed months against the previous twelve. Only what has really changed is listed: outside what the usual share gives 1 time in 20, with a difference of 3 points or more. The share is used, not the count, because the count for a month depends on how many sources are read. Check: after a change is flagged, the following month looks more like the recent months than like the usual. Not by region of Ukraine: each region is counted by a single channel, and a regional change cannot be told apart from a change in coverage.
Mix of each wave
In the Ukraine layer, each attack’s sheet and “Night by night” say how many of the drones launched were Shahed or Geran and how many were jet-powered when the Ukrainian Air Force report says so; the rest are Gerbera decoys and other types. They are minimums and come only from the official reports. The Ukraine text page has the mix month by month.
How it is scored
Probabilities with the Brier score (the squared error between the probability and what happened). In each part, “How it is checked” says how many nights or weeks it was checked against and, at the border, what happened in each probability band. Forecasts for the nights before publication are reconstructed as they would have been made then.
Live record
Since 6 October 2026 each forecast is stored with its time before the result is known (the border one, at the first update from 17:00 UTC) in a record that admits no changes or deletions, and scored once the result is known (3 days after the night). It is in the published file prevision.json and in the data export, with its method and date.

Licences and attributions

Code
Apache-2.0 (open source).
Data
CC BY 4.0 (external link, opens in a new tab). Source sentences belong to their authors and are reproduced as short quotations next to the link.
Base map
© OpenStreetMap (external link, opens in a new tab) contributors (ODbL), with tiles and style by Protomaps (external link, opens in a new tab).
Borders and regions
Natural Earth (external link, opens in a new tab), public domain.
News
GDELT (external link, opens in a new tab).
Places
GeoNames (external link, opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0).
Air traffic
© adsb.lol contributors (adsb.lol (external link, opens in a new tab)), ODbL 1.0 (external link, opens in a new tab). The air traffic block of the published files is derived from those data and is offered under the same licence. Airports and runways from OurAirports (external link, opens in a new tab) (public domain); coverage reference from EUROCONTROL (Aviation Intelligence Portal), not published; holding patterns with the method of the traffic (external link, opens in a new tab) library (MIT, © Xavier Olive).
Real-time traffic
© adsb.lol contributors (adsb.lol (external link, opens in a new tab)), ODbL 1.0 (external link, opens in a new tab); and, as backup, adsb.fi (external link, opens in a new tab).
Weather
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (external link, opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0) and METARs from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet (external link, opens in a new tab) of Iowa State University.
Satellite images
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (Sentinel-2 L2A on AWS (external link, opens in a new tab)). Night lights: NOAA-20 VIIRS, NOAA Open Data Dissemination (external link, opens in a new tab).
Thermal hotspots
We acknowledge the use of data and/or imagery from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) (https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/firms (external link, opens in a new tab)), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).

Open data

The data can be downloaded and reused with attribution. It is rebuilt with every update.

Incidents
GeoJSONCSV
Attacks in the Ukraine layer
JSONCSV
Incidents with an approximate location
JSON

Version of 16/10/2026 · 12:17 UTC

Licence: CC BY 4.0 (external link, opens in a new tab)

The observatory’s compilation (the incidents, their statuses, their classifications and their figures) is published under the CC BY 4.0 licence: it can be copied, transformed and reused, also for commercial purposes, citing the source as shown below. Quoted sentences remain their authors’ and are used as quotations, with their source and link. The measured air traffic block (trafico_aereo) derives from the adsb.lol archive and is offered under its licence, ODbL 1.0.

Authorship

Author: Lucas Alaniz Pintos, PhD · ORCID 0009-0008-5179-2534 (external link, opens in a new tab) · Contact: lucasalanizpintos@gmail.com

Recommended citation

Alaniz Pintos, L. (2026). European Observatory of Drone Incidents. Version 2026-10. https://droneobservatory.eu. Licence CC BY 4.0.

Citable versions

On the 1st of every month a version of the open data is frozen: the same files, with their date and fingerprint, at an address that does not change. A published version is never modified or deleted: it is there to cite exactly the data that was used.

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Author: Lucas Alaniz Pintos, PhD · ORCID 0009-0008-5179-2534 (external link, opens in a new tab) · Contact: lucasalanizpintos@gmail.com

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Incursion

Drone enters Romanian airspace and is intercepted

EODI-2025-00306

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Event status
ConfirmedWhat it means: An authority states that the incident happened.
Drone presence
Drone confirmedWhat it means: The competent authority attributes the event to a drone.
Type
IncursionThe drone enters from outside the country and its origin is proven by tracking or by debris. A sighting with no proven origin is never an incursion.
Date
13/09/2025day only
Place
Pardina, Romaniaarea of 5 km radius
Border or interior
Borderlinked to that night’s Russian attack on Ukraine
Location per
The Romanian Ministry of National Defence (Ministerul Apărării Naționale)
«from NE of Chilia Veche towards SW of Izmail, and left national airspace at the level of Pardina locality»
Show original«de la NE de Chilia Veche spre SV de Izmail, și a părăsit spațiul aerian național în dreptul localității Pardina»

The Romanian Ministry of National Defence (Ministerul Apărării Naționale) · 14/09/2025 · see the source

Other places
  • Chilia Veche
Drones
1–2
Drone type
Compatible with a long-range drone of the war (attack or decoy)
  • It entered from outside, 0 km from Ukraine, Russia or Belarus: within the range of the long-range drones launched in the war
  • Flight of 50 min: “A Russian drone violated Romania's airspace for about 50 minutes before returning to Ukraine.”, against the endurance of each class
Deduced by the observatory from what has been published; no authority has said which drone it was.
Route according to the authority
Chilia Veche → Pardinafrom NE of Chilia Veche towards SW of Izmail, and left national airspace at the level of Pardina locality
Show originalde la NE de Chilia Veche spre SV de Izmail, și a părăsit spațiul aerian național în dreptul localității Pardina
The places the authority names, in order; the band joins each pair.
Response
fighter jets scrambled

Sources and quotes (89)

  1. The Romanian Ministry of National Defence (Ministerul Apărării Naționale) · 14/09/2025 · A3

    «from NE of Chilia Veche towards SW of Izmail, and left national airspace at the level of Pardina locality»
    Show original«de la NE de Chilia Veche spre SV de Izmail, și a părăsit spațiul aerian național în dreptul localității Pardina»

    https://www.mapn.ro/cpresa/18970_x

  2. Statement by the Romanian Ministry of National Defence, quoted in leggo.it · 13/09/2025 · B3

    «Its airspace was violated during a Russian attack on infrastructure in neighbouring Ukraine.»
    Show original«Il suo spazio aereo è stato violato durante un attacco russo alle infrastrutture nella vicina Ucraina.»

    https://leggo.it/schede/romania_drone_russo_spazio_aereo_allerta_polonia_cosa_sta_succedendo_oggi_13_9_2025-9066022.html

  3. Statement by the Romanian Ministry of National Defence, quoted in mediafax.ro · 13/09/2025 · B3

    «The radars intercepted it and saw it approaching our airspace»
    Show original«Radarele au interceptat-o și au văzut-o venind spre spațiul nostru aerian»

    https://mediafax.ro/social/drona-detectata-in-spatiul-aerian-al-romaniei-doua-avioane-f-16-au-decolat-pentru-monitorizarea-situatiei-la-granita-cu-ucraina-ro-alert-in-tulcea-23610169

  4. Statement by Romania, quoted in aol.com · 13/09/2025 · B3

    «Drone breaches Romanian airspace during Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine.»

    https://aol.com/articles/drone-breaches-romanian-airspace-during-165642278.html (archived copy from 13/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  5. Statement by the Romanian Government, quoted in heraldo.es · 13/09/2025 · B3

    «A Russian drone enters Romanian airspace and Bucharest deploys its fighter jets»
    Show original«Un dron ruso entra en el espacio aéreo de Rumanía y Bucarest despliega sus cazas»

    https://heraldo.es/noticias/internacional/2025/09/13/dron-ruso-cazas-rumania-frontera-ucrania-ataque-danubio-1853763.html · archived copy

  6. Statement by the Romanian Air Force (Forțele Aeriene), quoted in news.yam.md · 13/09/2025 · B3

    «The Air Force intercepted a drone in national airspace»
    Show original«Forțele Aeriene au interceptat o dronă în spațiul aerian național»

    https://news.yam.md/ro/story/17769280 (archived copy from 13/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  7. Statement by the Romanian Air Force (Forțele Aeriene Române), quoted in ziare.com · 13/09/2025 · B3

    «The Romanian Air Force intercepted a Russian drone that entered national airspace»
    Show original«Forțele Aeriene Române au interceptat o dronă rusească intrată în spațiul aerian național.»

    https://ziare.com/drone/alerta-dubla-la-tulcea-ro-alert-emis-din-nou-1964138 · archived copy

  8. Statement by the Romanian Minister of Defence, quoted in eadaily.com · 14/09/2025 · B3

    «a Russian drone had flown into the country and the country's air Force was ready to shoot it down.»

    https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/09/14/romanian-defense-minister-they-wanted-to-shoot-down-a-russian-drone-but-it-flew-away-on-ukraine

  9. Statement by the Romanian Ministry of National Defence (Ministerul Apărării Naționale), quoted in bucurestifm.ro · 14/09/2025 · B3

    «Romanian F-16 fighter pilots were authorized to shoot down the Russian drone»
    Show original«Piloții români de avioane de luptă F-16 au primit autorizarea de a doborî drona rusească»

    https://bucurestifm.ro/2025/09/14/precizari-ale-mapn-privind-drona-ruseasca-intrata-sambata-in-spatiul-aerian-al-romaniei · archived copy

  10. Statement by the Romanian Government (Guvernul României), quoted in online-news.it · 14/09/2025 · B3

    «A Russian drone violated Romania's airspace for about 50 minutes before returning to Ukraine.»
    Show original«Un drone russo ha violato lo spazio aereo della Romania per circa 50 minuti prima di rientrare in Ucraina.»

    https://online-news.it/romania-drone-russo-viola-lo-spazio-aereo-nato-bucarest-atto-irresponsabile · archived copy

  11. Statement by the Ministry of Defence, quoted in stiripesurse.ro · 15/09/2025 · B3

    «fragments of Russian drones have fallen on Romanian territory, according to data sent to AGERPRES on Sunday by the Ministry of National Defence»

    https://stiripesurse.ro/mapn-debris-from-drones-russia-uses-in-war-in-ukraine-identified-on-romanias-soil_3811435 · archived copy

  12. Statement by the Romanian Ministry of National Defence (Ministerul Apărării al României), quoted in hotnews.ro · 15/09/2025 · B3

    «A Russian unmanned aerial vehicle entered the airspace of our country.»
    Show original«Un vehicul aerian rusesc fără pilot a intrat în spațiul aerian al țării noastre.»

    https://hotnews.ro/drone-rusesti-in-polonia-si-romania-medvedev-ameninta-din-nou-nato-iar-ambasada-rusiei-la-bucuresti-ironizeaza-mapn-a-descoperit-un-alt-ozn-2065961 · archived copy

  13. digi24.ro · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «The detection of a drone in Romanian airspace»
    Show original«depistarea unei drone în spațiul aerian al României»

    https://digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/evenimente/ro-alert-pentru-zona-de-nord-a-judetului-tulcea-risc-de-cadere-a-unor-obiecte-din-spatiul-aerian-3411837

  14. ilmessaggero.it · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania, Russian drone violates airspace.»
    Show original«Romania, drone russo viola spazio aereo.»

    https://ilmessaggero.it:443/mondo/romania_drone_russo_spazio_aereo_allerta_polonia_aeronautica_militare_cosa_succede_ultime_notizie-9065990.html · archived copy

  15. leggo.it · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania, a Russian drone violates airspace. In Poland Warsaw and NATO jets in flight at the border»
    Show original«Romania, un drone russo viola lo spazio aereo. In Polonia jet di Varsavia e Nato in volo al confine»

    https://leggo.it/schede/romania_drone_russo_spazio_aereo_allerta_polonia_cosa_sta_succedendo_oggi_13_9_2025-9066022.html

  16. mediafax.ro · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «The drone flying very low at one point headed towards Ukraine»
    Show original«Drona zburând foarte jos la un moment dat a plecat în Ucraina»

    https://mediafax.ro/social/drona-detectata-in-spatiul-aerian-al-romaniei-doua-avioane-f-16-au-decolat-pentru-monitorizarea-situatiei-la-granita-cu-ucraina-ro-alert-in-tulcea-23610169

  17. aol.com · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Drone breaches Romanian airspace during Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine.»

    https://aol.com/articles/drone-breaches-romanian-airspace-during-165642278.html (archived copy from 13/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  18. se.pl · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian attacks on Ukraine. A drone entered Romanian airspace»
    Show original«Rosyjskie ataki na Ukrainę. Dron wtargnął w przestrzeń powietrzną Rumunii»

    https://se.pl/wiadomosci/swiat/rosyjskie-ataki-na-ukraine-dron-wtargnal-w-przestrzen-powietrzna-rumunii-aa-L3Jh-9jGF-dtG9.html

  19. zazoom.it · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian drone violates Romania's airspace Warsaw and NATO jets in flight at the border | what is happening Italy's position»
    Show original«Drone russo viola lo spazio aereo della Romania jet di Varsavia e Nato in volo al confine | cosa sta succedendo La posizione dell' Italia»

    https://zazoom.it/2025-09-13/drone-russo-viola-lo-spazio-aereo-della-romania-jet-di-varsavia-e-nato-in-volo-al-confine-cosa-sta-succedendo-la-posizione-dellitalia/17743510 (archived copy from 13/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  20. dr.dk · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Drone violated Romanian airspace during Russian attack in Ukraine | News»
    Show original«Drone krænkede rumænsk luftrum under russisk angreb i Ukraine | Nyheder»

    https://dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/drone-kraenkede-rumaensk-luftrum-under-russisk-angreb-i-ukraine

  21. heraldo.es · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «A Russian drone enters Romanian airspace»
    Show original«Un dron ruso entra en el espacio aéreo de Rumanía»

    https://heraldo.es/noticias/internacional/2025/09/13/dron-ruso-cazas-rumania-frontera-ucrania-ataque-danubio-1853763.html · archived copy

  22. elpuntavui.cat · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania scrambles two fighter jets to shoot down a Russian drone that had violated its airspace | X.A. | Bucharest | Politics»
    Show original«Romania enlaira dos caces per abatre un dron rus que havia violat el seu espai | X.A. | Bucarest | Política»

    https://elpuntavui.cat/politica/article/17-politica/2574692-romania-intercepta-un-dron-rus-que-havia-violat-el-seu-espai-aeri.html (broken link, no archived copy)

  23. t-online.de · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Ukraine war: drone penetrates Romanian airspace»
    Show original«Ukraine-Krieg: Drohne dringt in rumänischen Luftraum ein»

    https://t-online.de/nachrichten/ukraine/id_100904276/ukraine-krieg-drohne-dringt-in-rumaenischen-luftraum-ein.html · archived copy

  24. elmundo.es · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «A drone violates Romanian airspace during the Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine»
    Show original«Un dron viola el espacio aéreo rumano durante el ataque ruso a la vecina Ucrania»

    https://elmundo.es/internacional/2025/09/13/68c5b1a6e4d4d8a27f8b4594.html · archived copy

  25. tf1info.fr · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «LIVE - War in Ukraine: a drone intercepted by F-16s in Romanian airspace»
    Show original«EN DIRECT - Guerre en Ukraine : un drone intercepté par des F-16 dans l'espace aérien roumain»

    https://tf1info.fr/international/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-pologne-et-otan-deploient-des-avions-apres-survol-de-drones-russe-les-dernieres-actualites-2394433.html

  26. news.yam.md · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania on alert – Air Forces intercepted a drone in national airspace – RO-Alert for the northern area of Tulcea County»
    Show original«România în alertă – Forțele Aeriene au interceptat o dronă în spațiul aerian național – RO-Alert pentru zona de nord a judeţului Tulcea»

    https://news.yam.md/ro/story/17769280 (archived copy from 13/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  27. n-tv.de · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Ukraine war live ticker: +++ 20:40 Drone enters Romanian airspace +++»
    Show original«Ukraine-Krieg im Liveticker: +++ 20:40 Drohne dringt in rumänischen Luftraum ein +++»

    https://n-tv.de/politik/20-40-Drohne-dringt-in-rumaenischen-Luftraum-ein--article23143824.html (archived copy from 13/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  28. deutschlandfunk.de · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania reports airspace violation by Russian drone»
    Show original«Rumänien meldet Verletzung des Luftraums durch russische Drohne.»

    https://deutschlandfunk.de/rumaenien-meldet-verletzung-des-luftraums-durch-russische-drohne-ukraine-greift-eine-der-groessten-r-100.html

  29. ziare.com · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «The Romanian Air Force intercepted a Russian drone that entered national airspace»
    Show original«Forțele Aeriene Române au interceptat o dronă rusească intrată în spațiul aerian național.»

    https://ziare.com/drone/alerta-dubla-la-tulcea-ro-alert-emis-din-nou-1964138 · archived copy

  30. lalibre.be · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: Romania claims a drone violated its airspace»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine: la Roumanie affirme qu'un drone a violé son espace aérien»

    https://lalibre.be/international/europe/guerre-ukraine-russie/2025/09/13/guerre-en-ukraine-la-roumanie-affirme-quun-drone-a-viole-son-espace-aerien-HSC4FCWK7JG2VLX62VSF6MNY4E · archived copy

  31. inewsgr.com · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Drones in Polish and Romanian airspace: "They were Russian" says Bucharest – Rubio: "Serious escalation"»
    Show original«Drones στον εναέριο χώρο Πολωνίας και Ρουμανίας: «Ηταν ρωσικά» λέει το Βουκουρέστι – Ρούμπιο: «Σοβαρή κλιμάκωση»»

    https://inewsgr.com/122/Drones-ston-enaerio-choro-polonias-kai-roumanias-itan-rosika-leei-to-voukouresti--roubio-sovari-klimakosi.htm

  32. huffingtonpost.es · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «A Russian drone violates Romanian airspace during an attack on Ukraine»
    Show original«Un dron ruso viola el espacio aéreo de Rumanía durante un ataque a Ucrania»

    https://huffingtonpost.es/global/un-dron-ruso-viola-espacioereo-rumania-ataque-ucraniabr.html · archived copy

  33. latercera.com · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania intercepts a Russian drone that violated its airspace near Ukraine»
    Show original«Rumanía intercepta a un dron ruso que violó su espacio aéreo cerca de Ucrania»

    https://latercera.com/mundo/noticia/rumania-intercepta-a-un-dron-ruso-que-violo-su-espacio-aereo-cerca-de-ucrania

  34. infobae.com · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania intercepted a Russian drone that violated its airspace near the border with Ukraine»
    Show original«Rumania interceptó un dron ruso que violó su espacio aéreo cerca de la frontera con Ucrania»

    https://infobae.com/america/mundo/2025/09/13/rumania-intercepto-un-dron-ruso-que-violo-su-espacio-aereo-cerca-de-la-frontera-con-ucrania

  35. zeit.de · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «War against Ukraine: Romania reports Russian drone entering its airspace»
    Show original«Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Rumänien meldet Eindringen russischer Drohne in seinen Luftraum»

    https://zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-09/ukraine-russland-krieg-luftraumverletzung-polen-rumaenien · archived copy

  36. mdr.de · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Ukraine news: Romania reports airspace violation by Russian drone»
    Show original«Ukraine-News: Rumänien meldet Luftraumverletzung durch russische Drohne»

    https://mdr.de/nachrichten/welt/osteuropa/politik/ukraine-krieg-russland-drohnen-polen-rumaenien-kampfjets-100.html · archived copy

  37. hindustantimes.com · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «After Poland, now Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace amid Ukraine war»

    https://hindustantimes.com/world-news/after-poland-now-romania-says-russian-drone-breached-its-airspace-amid-ukraine-war-101757792334480.html

  38. spravy.pravda.sk · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Romanian army on alert: an apparently Russian drone entered the country's airspace. Bucharest deployed fighter jets»
    Show original«Rumunská armáda v pohotovosti: do vzdušného priestoru krajiny vnikol zrejme ruský dron. Bukurešť nasadila stíhačky»

    https://spravy.pravda.sk/svet/clanok/766932-do-vzdusneho-priestoru-rumunska-vnikol-zrejme-rusky-dron

  39. sudouest.fr · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: Romania claims a drone violated its airspace during Russian strikes»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : la Roumanie affirme qu'un drone a violé son espace aérien pendant des frappes russes»

    https://sudouest.fr:443/international/russie/guerre-en-ukraine-la-roumanie-affirme-qu-un-drone-a-viole-son-espace-aerien-pendant-des-frappes-russes-25913758.php

  40. cope.es · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania assures that a drone has violated its airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine»
    Show original«Rumanía asegura que un dron ha violado su espacio aéreo durante un ataque de Rusia a Ucrania»

    https://cope.es/actualidad/internacional/noticias/rumania-asegura-dron-violado-espacio-aereo-ataque-rusia-ucrania-20250913_3213323.html

  41. lepoint.fr · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: a drone detected in Romanian airspace»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : un drone détecté dans l'espace aérien de la Roumanie»

    https://lepoint.fr/monde/guerre-en-ukraine-un-drone-detecte-dans-l-espace-aerien-de-la-roumanie-13-09-2025-2598515_24.php · archived copy

  42. vozpopuli.com · 13/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian drones violate Romanian airspace in an attack on Ukraine»
    Show original«Drones rusos violan el espacio aéreo rumano en un ataque a Ucrania»

    https://vozpopuli.com/internacional/drones-rusos-violan-el-espacio-aereo-rumano-en-un-ataque-a-ucrania.html · archived copy

  43. ampress.ro · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Residents of Tulcea County were alerted this evening through a new RO-Alert message regarding the presence of a second Russian drone»
    Show original«Locuitorii județului Tulcea au fost alertați în această seară printr-un nou mesaj RO-Alert privind prezența unei a doua drone rusești.»

    https://ampress.ro/alerta-in-tulcea-a-doua-drona-ruseasca-detectata-in-spatiul-aerian-al-tarii · archived copy

  44. rador.ro · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Residents of Tulcea County received a new RO-Alert message announcing the presence of a second Russian drone in the country's airspace»
    Show original«Locuitorii din județul Tulcea au primit un nou mesaj RO-Alert, care anunță prezența unei a doua drone rusești în spațiul aerian al țării»

    https://rador.ro/2025/09/13/locuitorii-din-judetul-tulcea-au-primit-un-nou-mesaj-ro-alert-care-anunta-prezenta-unei-a-doua-drone-rusesti-in-spatiul-aerian-al-tarii · archived copy

  45. 20minutes.fr · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: After Poland, Romania sees a drone violate its airspace»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : Après la Pologne, la Roumanie voit un drone violer son espace aérien»

    https://20minutes.fr/monde/russie/4172954-20250914-guerre-ukraine-apres-pologne-roumanie-voit-drone-violer-espace-aerien

  46. moneycontrol.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian drone breaches Romanian airspace during strike on Ukraine»

    https://moneycontrol.com/world/russian-drone-breaches-romanian-airspace-during-strike-on-ukraine-article-13544696.html · archived copy

  47. indianexpress.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «After Poland, drone breaches Romanian airspace during Russian attack on Ukraine»

    https://indianexpress.com/article/world/after-poland-drone-breaches-romanian-airspace-russian-attack-on-ukraine-10248679

  48. aljazeera.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania reports drone incursion during Russian attack on Ukraine»

    https://aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/14/romania-reports-drone-incursion-during-russian-attack-on-ukraine · archived copy

  49. dominicanrepublicpost.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania reports drone incursion during Russian attack on Ukraine - Dominican Republic Post – Caribbean News, Business, Travel & Culture»

    https://dominicanrepublicpost.com/romania-reports-drone-incursion-during-russian-attack-on-ukraine (archived copy from 14/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  50. bfmtv.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: intrusion of a Russian drone in Romania after the violation of Polish airspace»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine: intrusion d'un drone russe en Roumanie après la violation de l'espace aérien polonais»

    https://bfmtv.com/international/asie/russie/guerre-en-ukraine-intrusion-d-un-drone-russe-en-roumanie-apres-la-violation-de-l-espace-aerien-polonais_AD-202509140051.html · archived copy

  51. rtl.be · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian strikes in Ukraine: after Poland, Romania claims a Russian drone violated its airspace»
    Show original«Frappes russes en Ukraine : après la Pologne, la Roumanie affirme qu'un drone russe a violé son espace aérien»

    https://rtl.be/actu/monde/europe/frappes-russes-en-ukraine-apres-la-pologne-la-roumanie-affirme-quun-drone-russe/2025-09-13/article/763382

  52. cnn.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania intercepts a drone in its airspace as Russia attacks Ukraine, says Romanian ministry»
    Show original«Rumania intercepta un dron en su espacio aéreo mientras Rusia ataca a Ucrania, dice ministerio rumano»

    https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/09/13/mundo/rumania-intercepta-dron-espacio-aereo-rusia-ucrania-trax

  53. varmatin.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian strikes in Ukraine: Romania claims a drone flew over its airspace, less than four days after the intrusion into Polish skies»
    Show original«Frappes russes en Ukraine: la Roumanie affirme qu'un drone a survolé son espace aérien, moins de quatre jours après l'intrusion dans le ciel polonais»

    https://varmatin.com/conflits/frappes-russes-en-ukraine-nouvelle-incursion-d-un-drone-dans-le-ciel-d-un-pays-de-l-otan-en-roumanie-1001838 (archived copy from 14/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  54. tf1info.fr · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian strikes in Ukraine: Romania claims a drone violated its airspace»
    Show original«Frappes russes en Ukraine : la Roumanie affirme qu'un drone a violé son espace aérien»

    https://tf1info.fr/international/frappes-russes-guerre-en-ukraine-nouvelle-incursion-d-un-drone-dans-le-ciel-d-un-pays-de-l-otan-en-roumanie-2394477.html · archived copy

  55. lexpress.fr · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: after Poland, Romania in turn claims that a Russian drone violated its airspace»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : après la Pologne, la Roumanie affirme à son tour qu'un drone russe a violé son espace aérien»

    https://lexpress.fr/monde/europe/la-roumanie-affirme-quun-drone-a-viole-son-espace-aerien-pendant-des-frappes-russes-sur-lukraine-WH4GNAXNGNBFZM7PHZ2VBHFLJE · archived copy

  56. independent.co.uk · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania scrambles jets accusing Moscow of another drone breach after Poland incursion.»

    https://independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/romania-poland-russia-drones-ukraine-war-putin-nato-latest-news-b2826119.html

  57. irishtimes.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania scrambles jets after drone reported in airspace during Russian attack on Ukraine»

    https://irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/09/14/russia-ukraine-war-romania-poland · archived copy

  58. lematin.ch · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: Russian drone flies over Romanian airspace»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : un drone russe survole l'espace aérien roumain»

    https://lematin.ch/story/guerre-en-ukraine-quatre-jours-apres-la-pologne-un-drone-russe-survole-la-roumanie-103414739

  59. cursdeguvernare.ro · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «New Russian challenge: A drone violated Romania's airspace, penetrated 10 km into Tulcea County and operated for 50 minutes. Explanations»
    Show original«Nouă provocare rusească: O dronă a încălcat spațiul aerian al României, a pătruns 10 km în județul Tulcea și a operat 50 de minute. Explicațiile»

    https://cursdeguvernare.ro/drone-rusia-romania-mosteanu-provocare-tulcea-f16.html

  60. japantoday.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Drone breaches Romanian airspace during Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine»

    https://japantoday.com/category/world/drone-breaches-romanian-airspace-during-russian-attack-on-neighboring-ukraine

  61. midilibre.fr · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «On September 13, 2025, Romania announced it had deployed F-16 fighter jets after the intrusion of a Russian drone.»
    Show original«Le 13 septembre 2025, la Roumanie a annoncé avoir déployé des avions de chasse F-16 après l'intrusion d'un drone russe.»

    https://midilibre.fr/2025/09/14/guerre-en-ukraine-apres-la-pologne-la-roumanie-un-drone-russe-repere-la-ou-il-naurait-pas-du-etre-12929805.php

  62. eadaily.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «a Russian drone had flown into the country»

    https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/09/14/romanian-defense-minister-they-wanted-to-shoot-down-a-russian-drone-but-it-flew-away-on-ukraine

  63. taz.de · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Ukraine war news: Drones violate Romanian airspace»
    Show original«+++ Nachrichten im Ukraine-Krieg +++: Drohnen verletzen rumänischen Luftraum»

    https://taz.de/-Nachrichten-im-Ukraine-Krieg-/!6113608

  64. kyivindependent.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian drone that entered Romanian airspace on Sept. 13.»

    https://kyivindependent.com/romania-was-close-to-downing-russian-drone-before-it-returned-to-ukraine-minister-says · archived copy

  65. bucurestifm.ro · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «A Geran-type drone orbited for 50 minutes between Chilia Veche and Ismail»
    Show original«Drona de tip Geran a orbitat timp de 50 de minute între Chilia Veche și Ismail»

    https://bucurestifm.ro/2025/09/14/precizari-ale-mapn-privind-drona-ruseasca-intrata-sambata-in-spatiul-aerian-al-romaniei · archived copy

  66. franceinfo.fr · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: new incursion of a Russian drone, this time, in Romania»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : nouvelle incursion d'un drone russe, cette fois, en Roumanie»

    https://franceinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/13-heures/guerre-en-ukraine-nouvelle-incursion-d-un-drone-russe-cette-fois-en-roumanie_7491859.html

  67. ladepeche.fr · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: Romania overflown by a Russian drone, Moscow's rail network sabotaged... Situation update on the conflict»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : la Roumanie survolée par un drone russe, le réseau ferroviaire de Moscou saboté… Le point sur la situation du conflit»

    https://ladepeche.fr/2025/09/14/guerre-en-ukraine-la-roumanie-survolee-par-un-drone-russe-le-reseau-ferroviaire-de-moscou-sabote-le-point-sur-la-situation-du-conflit-12930066.php · archived copy

  68. mediafax.ro · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Violation of Romanian airspace by a Russian drone on September 13, 2025»
    Show original«Încălcării spațiului aerian al României de o dronă rusească pe 13 septembrie 2025»

    https://mediafax.ro/politic/ambasadorul-rusiei-la-bucuresti-convocat-la-mae-dupa-ce-o-drona-ruseasca-a-intrat-in-spatiul-aerian-al-romaniei-oana-toiu-vrem-sa-comunicam-foarte-clar-protestul-23610391 · archived copy

  69. standard.co.uk · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania scrambles jets after Russian drone breaches airspace during Ukraine strikes»

    https://standard.co.uk/news/world/romania-russia-drone-ukraine-strikes-b1247667.html · archived copy

  70. linternaute.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: Romania Condemns Russia After Drone Intrusion Into Its Airspace»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : la Roumanie condamne la Russie après l'intrusion d'un drone dans son espace aérien»

    https://linternaute.com/actualite/monde/8796370-guerre-en-ukraine-la-roumanie-condamne-la-russie-apres-l-intrusion-d-un-drone-dans-son-espace-aerien · archived copy

  71. 9news.com.au · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Russia Ukraine update: Romania condemns 'irresponsible' Moscow after Russian drone breaches its airspace»

    https://9news.com.au/world/russia-ukraine-update-romania-condemns-irresponsible-moscow-after-russian-drone-breaches-its-airspace/8a784788-7b8e-4821-95fb-a23d69ae4480

  72. ta3.com · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania summoned the Russian ambassador. Bucharest protests against the violation of its airspace by a drone»
    Show original«Rumunsko si predvolalo ruského veľvyslanca. Bukurešť protestuje proti narušeniu svojho vzdušného priestoru dronom»

    https://ta3.com/clanok/1011705/rusky-velvyslanec-predvolany-do-rumunskej-diplomacie-incident-s-dronom-oznacili-za-porusenie-medzinarodneho-prava

  73. lindependant.fr · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Ukraine war: a 50-minute incursion, a replica of Iranian Shaheds... Romania describes the Russian drone that violated its airspace.»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : Une incursion de 50 minutes, une réplique des Shahed iraniens… La Roumanie décrit le drone russe qui a violé son espace»

    https://lindependant.fr/2025/09/14/guerre-en-ukraine-une-incursion-de-50-minutes-une-replique-des-shahed-iraniens-la-roumanie-decrit-le-drone-russe-qui-a-viole-son-espace-aerien-12930473.php

  74. online-news.it · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «A Russian drone violated Romania's airspace for about 50 minutes before returning to Ukraine.»
    Show original«Un drone russo ha violato lo spazio aereo della Romania per circa 50 minuti prima di rientrare in Ucraina.»

    https://online-news.it/romania-drone-russo-viola-lo-spazio-aereo-nato-bucarest-atto-irresponsabile · archived copy

  75. afropages.fr · 14/09/2025 · C3

    «Live, war in Ukraine: Romania conveys to the Russian ambassador its "strong protest" against an "unacceptable act»
    Show original«En direct, guerre en Ukraine : la Roumanie fait part à l'ambassadeur russe de « sa vive protestation » face à un « acte inacceptable»

    https://afropages.fr/le-monde/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-la-roumanie-fait-part-a-lambassadeur-russe-de-sa-vive-protestation-face-a-un-acte-inacceptable-et-irresponsable-apres-lintrusion-dun-drone-dans-son-espace-aerien (archived copy from 14/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  76. negocios.com · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Romania summons Russian ambassador in Bucharest after drone incursion in its airspace»
    Show original«Rumanía convoca al embajador ruso en Bucarest tras incursión de drones en su espacio aéreo»

    https://negocios.com/articulo/geopolitica/rumania-convoca-embajador-ruso-bucarest-incursion-drones-espacio-aereo/20250914214726466911.html · archived copy

  77. stiripesurse.ro · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «fragments of Russian drones have fallen on Romanian territory, according to data sent to AGERPRES»

    https://stiripesurse.ro/mapn-debris-from-drones-russia-uses-in-war-in-ukraine-identified-on-romanias-soil_3811435 · archived copy

  78. hindustantimes.com · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «'Deliberate provocation': Russia denies drone incursion in Romania, pins blame on Ukraine»

    https://hindustantimes.com/world-news/deliberate-provocation-russia-denies-drone-incursion-in-romania-pins-blame-on-ukraine-101757918076247.html

  79. news.yam.md · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Russia's ambassador to Bucharest, summoned twice in three days, after a Russian drone entered Romanian airspace»
    Show original«Ambasadorul Rusiei la București, convocat de două ori în trei zile, după intrarea unei drone rusești în spațiul aerian al României»

    https://news.yam.md/ro/story/17774508 (archived copy from 15/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  80. hotnews.ro · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian drones in Poland and Romania. Medvedev threatens NATO again, while Russia's embassy in Bucharest mocks the Defense Ministry: "Discovered another UFO"»
    Show original«Drone rusești în Polonia și România. Medvedev amenință din nou NATO, iar ambasada Rusiei la București ironizează MApN: „A descoperit un alt OZN"»

    https://hotnews.ro/drone-rusesti-in-polonia-si-romania-medvedev-ameninta-din-nou-nato-iar-ambasada-rusiei-la-bucuresti-ironizeaza-mapn-a-descoperit-un-alt-ozn-2065961 · archived copy

  81. europapress.es · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Russia claims drone incursion into Romania was a 'provocation' by Ukraine»
    Show original«Rusia afirma que la incursión de un dron en Rumanía fue una "provocación" de Ucrania»

    https://europapress.es/internacional/noticia-rusia-afirma-incursion-dron-rumania-fue-provocacion-ucrania-20250915093420.html · archived copy

  82. andaluciainformacion.es · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «The drone incursion into Romania was a 'provocation' by Ukraine, according to Russia»
    Show original«La incursión del dron en Rumanía fue una "provocación" de Ucrania, según Rusia»

    https://andaluciainformacion.es/articulo/mundo/incursion-dron-rumania-fue-provocacion-ucrania-rusia/202509150957023138286.html

  83. lindependant.fr · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «War in Ukraine: Geran drone incursion in Romania, Russia denounces a 'provocation' by Kyiv»
    Show original«Guerre en Ukraine : incursion d'un drone Geran en Roumanie, la Russie dénonce une "provocation" de Kiev»

    https://lindependant.fr/2025/09/15/guerre-en-ukraine-incursion-dun-drone-geran-en-roumanie-la-russie-denonce-une-provocation-de-kiev-12931160.php · archived copy

  84. news18.com · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Russia Denies Drone Incursion In Romania, Calls It 'Deliberate Provocation' By Ukraine»

    https://news18.com/world/russia-denies-drone-incursion-in-romania-calls-it-deliberate-provocation-by-ukraine-ws-bl-9572863.html · archived copy

  85. athina984.gr · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Bucharest summoned the Russian ambassador to protest the penetration of a Russian drone into Romanian airspace»
    Show original«Το Βουκουρέστι κάλεσε τον Ρώσο πρεσβευτή για να διαμαρτυρηθεί για τη διείσδυση ρωσικού drone στον εναέριο χώρο του»

    https://athina984.gr/2025/09/15/to-voykoyresti-kalese-ton-roso-presveyti-gia-na-diamartyrithei-gia-ti-dieisdysi-rosikoy-drone-ston-enaerio-choro-toy

  86. news.yam.md · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian Embassy in Bucharest denies that a Russian drone flew over Romanian airspace and blames Ukraine: 'Provocation'»
    Show original«Ambasada Rusiei la București neagă că o dronă rusească a survolat spațiul aerian al României și dă vina pe Ucraina: „Provocare"»

    https://news.yam.md/ro/story/17776599 (archived copy from 15/09/2025; the original is no longer available: original link)

  87. theepochtimes.com · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Russian Drone Breached Romanian Airspace During Attack on Ukraine, Defense Ministry Says»

    https://theepochtimes.com/world/russian-drone-breached-romanian-airspace-during-attack-on-ukraine-defense-ministry-says-5915073

  88. spravy.pozri.sk · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Bucharest summoned the Russian ambassador after the drone incident, Kaja Kallas speaks of violation of NATO sovereignty»
    Show original«Bukurešť si predvolala ruského veľvyslanca po incidente s dronom, Kaja Kallas hovorí o porušení suverenity NATO»

    https://spravy.pozri.sk/clanok/bukurest-si-predvolala-ruskeho-velvyslanca-po-incidente-s-dronom-kaja-kallas-hovori-o-poruseni-suverenity-nato/1601338

  89. yahoo.com · 15/09/2025 · C3

    «Drills in Belarus and drone incursions into Romania: How the war in Ukraine has already become a European conflict»

    https://yahoo.com/news/articles/drills-belarus-drone-incursions-romania-153011187.html

Status history

  1. Reported · 13/09/2025 · elpuntavui.cat
  2. Confirmed · 13/09/2025 · Statement by the Romanian Government, quoted in heraldo.es

Record updated: 14/10/2026 · 03:36 UTC

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