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No. 181 31.08.2026

Defence Minister's participation in the Informal Meeting of EU Defence Ministers

Minister of National Defence Radu Miruță is attending the Informal Meeting of EU Defence Ministers on August 31st and September 1st in Wicklow, Ireland.

No. 180 31.08.2026

High-level Romanian-American dialogue at 57th Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base

Minister of National Defence Radu Miruță was part of the delegation led by the President of Romania, Nicușor Dan, which met on Sunday, August 30, at the 57th Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, with a delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives led by Mike Rogers, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

No. 179 31.08.2026

Press Information

On Sunday, August 30, at 10:36, the MonD's radar surveillance system detected an aerial target 20 km east of Vylkove, Ukraine, near the Romanian border.

Drone and sea mine incidents

Data updated on 31 August 2026

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine

131

Attacks near the border

Unauthorized Access

Drones shot down

Note: The data presented refers to the drone situations/incidents managed/reported by the Ministry of National Defence.

Drone incidents, grouped by period and 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	131	85	43	4	69	9
2026	65	50	25	4	33	2
2025	28	21	9	0	16	1
2024	26	12	7	0	14	1
2023	12	2	2	0	6	1
2022	0	0	0	0	0	4

2026

Attacks near the border: 65
Scrambled Aircraft: 50
Unauthorized Access: 25
Drones shot down: 4
Drone/identified fragments: 33
Naval mines neutralized, drifting in the EEZ or washed ashore: 2

About the categories

Please note: The categories are not cumulative. The same incident may be recorded under more than one category.

Attacks near the border incidents involving drone attacks on targets within Ukrainian territory, near the border with Romania, which prompted the Ministry of National Defense to take action to monitor and manage the situation.

Scrambled Aircraft situations in which aircraft from the Air Police Combat Service were scrambled to monitor the air situation.

Unauthorized Access instances in which drones have entered national airspace or maritime without authorization.

Drones shot down situations in which drones that had entered national airspace or maritime without authorization were engaged and shot down by military aircraft.

Drone/identified fragments situations in which drones or drone fragments were identified on Romanian territory, handled by the Ministry of National Defense or in which the Ministry was involved.

Naval mines neutralized, drifting in the EEZ or washed ashore The Romanian Naval Forces have destroyed nine drifting naval mines out of the 161 neutralized in the Black Sea, within the Exclusive Economic Zones of Romania (9), Turkey (11), Bulgaria (6), Georgia (1), Russia (1), and Ukraine (133).