Attacks near the border
On Saturday, September 12th, the Air Operations Centers of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova informed the Romanian Ministry of National Defence that a drone had crossed the airspace of both states, heading toward the northeastern region of Romania.
On Friday, September 11th, around 04:15, the MoND's radar surveillance system detected a group of aerial targets approximately 16 km north of Vylkove, Ukraine, near the border with Romania.
On Tuesday, September 8th, the Chief of the Romanian Defence Staff, General Gheorghiță Vlad, met, at the Ministry of National Defence headquarters, with General Thomas M. Carden, the Deputy Chief of the National Guard Bureau of the United States, and Major General David K. Pritchett, the Adjutant General of the Alabama National Guard, who are paying an official visit to Romania.
Data updated on 12 September 2026
The reported figures are grouped by year and by incident category.
| Period | Attacks near the border | Scrambled Aircraft | Unauthorized Access | Drones shot down | Drone/identified fragments | Naval mines neutralized, drifting in the EEZ or washed ashore |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Since the beginning of the war | 138 | 90 | 46 | 4 | 74 | 9 |
| 2026 | 71 | 55 | 27 | 4 | 37 | 2 |
| 2025 | 28 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
| 2024 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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