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NATO fighter jet shoots down drone breaching Romania’s airspace

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Tim Lister, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Todd Symons
NATO fighter jet shoots down drone breaching Romania’s airspace
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This article reports on a NATO fighter jet intercepting a drone that breached Romanian airspace, occurring amidst a broader escalation of drone warfare between Russia and Ukraine. The report details the intensity of recent aerial barrages and their impact on regional security.

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The breach of NATO airspace by military hardware increases the risk of direct conflict between Russia and the Western alliance.

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Russia says it shot down more than 800 Ukrainian drones overnight in what appears to be among Ukraine’s largest aerial attacks on Russia, with authorities reporting at least six people killed. The two sides have escalated their air war on one another, with Ukraine increasingly firing barrages of drones at targets deep inside Russia, including warehouses and industrial plants as well as refineries. Russia’s state-run TASS News said it was the largest Ukrainian drone attack since the beginning of the year – with many of the drones targeting the Moscow area where many of Russia’s elite reside. Air defense forces and electronic warfare units shot down and neutralized 187 drones over the Moscow region, according to its governor, Andrey Vorobiev. Geolocated video showed a huge fire at a Wildberries warehouse in the Moscow region, the Russian equivalent of Amazon. Vorobiev said no one was injured.

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