Attacks near the border
On Friday, October 23rd, Minister of National Defence, Ștefan-Radu Oprea, received, at the MoND headquarters, the visit of the Ambassador of the United States of America to Romania, H.E. Darryl Nirenberg.
On Thursday, 22 October, Minister of National Defence, Ștefan-Radu Oprea, and Chief of Defence Staff, General Gheorghiță Vlad, met at the MoND headquarters with General Seán Clancy, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee, during his official visit to Romania.
On Wednesday morning, October 21, the radar surveillance system of the Ministry of National Defence detected a group of aerial targets northeast of the town of Vylkove, in Ukraine's airspace.
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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