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The Minister of National Defense, Angel Tîlvãr, traveled today, September 6th, to the localities of Ceatalchioi and Chilia Veche in Tulcea County, where he had discussions with the citizens and local authorities in the vicinity of the attacks carried out by the Russian Federation on the Ukraine Danube port civil infrastructure, about the issues they faced on the last days.

In this afternoon, minister Tîlvãr has planned to visit Galați city, also.

The team led by the Minister of National Defense, which included the Chief of the Defense Staff, General Daniel Petrescu, and the Chief of the Air Force Staff, Lieutenant General Viorel Panã, gathered information about the specific situation in the visited areas and informed local authorities that additional measures will be taken to strengthen the monitoring and security capabilities of Romania's airspace at its borders.

The Ministry of National Defense (MApN) team also visited the vicinity of the village of Plauru, where the investigative teams of the MApN discovered, on the evening of September 5th, elements that could be associated with drone fragments. Specialists sent by MApN to the scene collected samples that will undergo technical expertise to determine their origin and characteristics.

The conclusions drawn by MApN specialists following the completion of the investigations will be communicated to the public with the utmost rapidity.

The Press Office