Romania’s defense ministry said fighter jets and radar tracking the missile showed it came no closer than 35 kilometers (more than 21 miles) to Romania’s border.
The Romanian authorities denied tthe chief of the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces that a Russian missile crossed the NATO member country’s airspace on Friday.
Romania’s defense ministry said fighter jets and radar tracking the missile showed that it came no closer than 35 kilometers (more than 21 miles) to the Romanian border.
“The shortest distance from the Romanian border that the target reached was 35 kilometers (more than 21 miles)“, said Defense Minister Angel Tîlvar, adding that “there is no reason to worry».
Specifically, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed earlier on Telegram on Friday morning that two Russian cruise missiles crossed Romanian airspace at around 10:33 am. local time (3:33 a.m. ET). This claim was repeated later in the day by the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
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