A drone has crashed near a village in Romania after overnight Russian air strikes in neighbouring Ukraine, the government said, in the latest such incident since Moscow invaded Ukraine.
NATO member Romania, a key ally of Ukraine, has repeatedly seen violations of its airspace and drone fragments falling onto its soil following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
"At 00:44, a drone deflected by Ukrainian air defence entered national airspace for a distance of approximately four kilometres", the defence ministry said.
"The drone crashed two kilometres from the village of Parches, outside the inhabited area," it said.
No casualties or property damage were reported, only "a patch of burned vegetation and drone debris", it added.
People in the area received phone alerts about the possible danger.
The drone was found after someone alerted the authorities, according to emergency services.
Two F-16 aircraft were scrambled during the night.
In 2025, Romania adopted a law allowing it to shoot down drones which breach its airspace, but no such action has been taken so far.
Earlier this month, Ukraine and Romania announced their intention to produce drones together in Romania using up to €200 million funding from the EU's SAFE Initiative.
The two countries signed a statement of intent on the matter during a visit to Bucharest by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In Ukraine, port facilities on the Danube river in the southern Odesa region on the Black Sea were damaged in the Russian drone attack, local officials said.
Regional Governor Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app that one person was injured in the attack, which also damaged energy and industrial infrastructure.
Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority said that one of the ports on the Danube had come under attack. It did not name the port, buts said that warehouses, quays and administrative buildings were damaged.
It also reported damage on the premises of separate port operators.
The port continues to operate, it said.
The mayor of the town of Izmail, Ukraine's biggest port on the Danube said the town had come under another "massive" Russian drone attack.
Local officials in the Izmail district said that close to17,000 consumers were without power as a result of the attack, which also cut off water supply in the nearby town of Vylkove.
Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 153 drones at the country, of which 130 were downed or neutralised.
Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine's maritime export routes during the four-year-old war, striking ports vital to foreign trade and the wartime economy.
The pace of attacks has increased, with Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha saying on Monday that Odesa port infrastructure has faced more strikes in the past month than during the entire previous year.
