Attacks near the border
On Monday evening, August 31, at 11:30 PM, the MoND's radar surveillance system detected two aerial targets 24 km northeast of Vylkove, Ukraine, near the Romanian border.
Minister of National Defence Radu Miruță is attending the Informal Meeting of EU Defence Ministers on August 31st and September 1st in Wicklow, Ireland.
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.
Data updated on 1 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 | 133 | 86 | 44 | 4 | 70 | 9 |
| 2026 | 66 | 51 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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