Romanian fighter jet shoots down two drones over Black Sea territorial waters

(Rome = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kyung-rak Min = A Romanian F-16 fighter jet shot down two drones over its territorial waters, Reuters reported on the 18th (local time).

According to foreign media, the Romanian Ministry of Defense said that the drones shot down that day were most likely the latest Russian drones that fly at a speed similar to that of a fighter jet.

It is reported that the shot down drones entered Romania's Black Sea territorial waters one by one at around 3 PM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) the previous afternoon and were flying at 450 km/h.

Recently, the number of ships attacked by drones in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania has been increasing.

On the 15th, a ship carrying chemical products was attacked by a drone and caught fire in the sea about 13 nautical miles southeast of the Romanian coastal city of Sulina. On the 5th, a drone attack caught fire on a ship in Romania's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Black Sea, killing two people.