Romania reports Russian drone in its airspace as Poland scrambles jets again

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian/AFP

Sat 13 Sep 2025 20.51 EDT


Romania became the latest Nato member state to report a drone incursion into its airspace , with Poland scrambling aircraft in response to fresh Russian drone strikes just over the border in Ukraine.

Romania’s defence ministry said on Saturday its airspace had been breached by a drone during a Russian attack on infrastructure in neighbouring Ukraine. Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets late on Saturday to monitor the situation after the strikes, the ministry said in statement.

The jets “detected a drone in national airspace” and tracked it until “it disappeared from the radar” near the Romanian village of Chilia Veche, it added.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia was deliberately expanding its drone operations and that the west needed to respond with tougher sanctions and closer defence cooperation. The latest drone incursions were “an obvious expansion of the war by Russia”, he said. “The Russian military knows exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can operate in the air.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/14/romania-reports-russian-drone-in-its-airspace-as-poland-scrambles-jets-again

[no_hypocrisy]

1. JFC. Not an accident.

[Butterflylady]

2. Doesn't say anything about.....

Drone having "made in USA" , parts. Downed drone had that inside, gee I wonder how that happened? Could it be that "we" gave them to Russia?

Just asking......

[BumRushDaShow]

3. I think Iran has been supplying many of Russia's drones

What seems to be amazing to me is the whole massive manufacturing process that must be going 24/7 for the number that have been claimed to have been fired/intercepted.

[ClaudetteCC]

4. Didn't one of our drones crash in Iran some years ago - I wonder how much of Iran's drones are based on that US drone

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Yeah but that was a gigantic (plane size) one

not the smaller ones that are basically armed missiles!

[ClaudetteCC]

9. they still need analogous guidance systems and communications

[BumRushDaShow]

10. But the bigger drones are more complicated

and since that loss (I think in 2019) the tech has probably changed as it gets updated continually.

[ClaudetteCC]

11. Certainly. I expect the tech was old but it was a good jumpstart

[PSPS]

6. And Belarus has its army massing against its western border for "military exercises." Sound familiar?

Belarus because a de-facto russian state in 1999 and Lukashenka staged another fake "election" in 2020.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-belarus-start-military-exercise-near-nato-border-after-drone-incursion-2025-09-12/

[Bayard]

7. Just testing the waters....

How in the world, would Putin have the money, or forces, to expand into other countries? They're already in pitiful shape in Ukraine.

[SupportSanity]

8. Putin is telegraphing in advance his intentions. Here it comes.......

How can he do this with limited resources? There is lots going on behind the scenes that we don't know about.