Attacks near the border
Two Romanian Air Force F-16 aircraft, conducting Air Policing missions, were scrambled from the 86th Air Base Borcea at 17:43, after radar surveillance systems detected a group of aerial targets flying approximately 120 kilometres east of Snake Island, heading southwest.
On the night of October 14 to 15, the radar surveillance system of the Ministry of National Defence detected a group of aerial targets near the Snake Island.
On Wednesday evening, October 14, the radar surveillance system of the Ministry of National Defence detected a group of aerial targets off the Black Sea coast.
Data updated on 17 October 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 | 164 | 112 | 54 | 6 | 81 | 9 |
| 2026 | 97 | 77 | 35 | 6 | 44 | 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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