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Press Release
On Wednesday morning, April 29th, the Russian forces conducted a new series of drone attacks on the civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, near the river border with Romania, in Tulcea County.
Two F-16 aircraft conducting Air Policing Service scrambled at around 01:10 from the 86th Air Base in Fetești.
The National Military Command Center (core) notified the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations regarding the establishment of alert measures for the population in the North of Tulcea County, and sent a RO-Alert message at 01.12.
Ground-based radars tracked two groups consisting of seven and, respectively, eight drones, which hit the town of Ismail, in Ukraine.
The F16 pilots reported multiple explosions on the Ukrainian side of the Danube, in the Ismail area.
No radar signals were detected in the national airspace.
The air alert ceased at 2:40 AM.
The Ministry of National Defence informs the Allied structures in real time about the situations generated by the attacks, maintaining permanent contact with them.
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