Overview
- The RAF Typhoons, which took off around 02:00 Saturday from Borcea Air Base in Romania, were authorized to engage drones tracked near Reni just over the border in Ukraine.
- UK and Romanian officials said the jets stayed in Romanian airspace and returned without firing after early reports wrongly claimed shootdowns.
- In Galați, residents later reported debris falling, and authorities recovered drone fragments that damaged an outbuilding and a power pole with no injuries.
- Romania condemned Russia’s actions and has not used its legal right to shoot down drones in peacetime.
- The scramble followed one of the largest recent Russian air assaults on Ukraine, with the air force reporting more than 600 drones and dozens of missiles.