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Eastern NATO members scramble jets

(ANSA-AFP) - BUCHAREST, NOV 19 - NATO members Romania and Poland scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday after Russian attacks in neighbouring Ukraine, with Bucharest saying a drone breached the country's airspace. Moldova, which lies between Romania and Ukraine, also reported a drone breach, summoning the Russian ambassador. Romania and Moldova have repeatedly seen violations of their airspaces, including drone fragments falling onto their soil, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. On Wednesday Romania's defence ministry said that following Russian air strikes on Ukraine, "for a few minutes, the signal of a drone was detected, which had entered approximately eight kilometres (five miles) into national airspace" before it disappeared from the radar. The drone then "reappeared intermittently on radar for approximately 12 minutes," the ministry said, with phone alerts sent to residents in the affected regions. Two "F-16s of the Romanian Air Force were scrambled," the ministry added, saying that "no cases of aircraft impact with the ground have been reported". "Teams of specialists are ready to begin ground searches," it added. (ANSA-AFP).

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