{"id":16424,"date":"2026-07-26T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/romania-downs-third-consecutive-intruder-drone-amid-escalating-border-violations\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:00:32","slug":"romania-downs-third-consecutive-intruder-drone-amid-escalating-border-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/romania-downs-third-consecutive-intruder-drone-amid-escalating-border-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania Downs Third Consecutive Intruder Drone Amid Escalating Border Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the third straight day, Romanian airspace has been breached, culminating in an F-16 fighter jet intercepting and destroying a hostile drone over territorial waters.  <\/p>\n<h4>F-16 Interception Over Sulina-Chilia<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;A new drone was shot down this morning at 10:13 by an aircraft of the Romanian Air Force over Romania&#8217;s territorial waters in the Sulina-Chilia region,&#8221; reads a statement from the Romanian president.<\/p>\n<h4>Shahed Drone Confirmed by General Prosecutor<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;According to the General Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, the drone shot down on Friday morning was of the Shahed type and was used by the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine. Proceedings concerning the drones shot down yesterday and today are ongoing,&#8221; added Nicusor Dan.<\/p>\n<h4>Diplomatic Protest and Ongoing Updates<\/h4>\n<p>The president also announced that Romania&#8217;s diplomatic protest directed to the Russian Federation will be based on these findings.<\/p>\n<p>The article is being updated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third straight day, Romanian airspace has been breached, culminating in an F-16 fighter jet intercepting and destroying a hostile drone over territorial waters. F-16 Interception Over Sulina-Chilia &#8220;A new drone was shot down this morning at 10:13 by an aircraft of the Romanian Air Force over Romania&#8217;s territorial waters in the Sulina-Chilia region,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-and-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}