Overview
- A maritime unmanned vessel discovered in berth 78 of Constanța civilian port self‑detonated at about 10:30 a.m. on Friday without causing casualties, Romanian authorities said.
- Security services had secured and isolated the device hours earlier and activated the Red Intervention Plan while more than 1,000 people were evacuated as a precaution and helicopters searched the coast.
- Kyiv told Bucharest it lost control of a naval drone after Russian electronic‑warfare measures interfered with guidance, a claim Moscow’s embassy rejected and Ukrainian and Russian accounts remain contested.
- Romanian teams reported multiple other maritime drones drifting along the coast, with some subsequently found or neutralized and fragments being examined by prosecutors and security services.
- Constanța is Romania’s largest Black Sea port and a key logistics hub, so the incident has sharpened NATO and EU focus on short‑range maritime and counter‑drone defenses and the risk of further war spillover.