{"id":6066,"date":"2025-07-28T08:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:03:47","slug":"romania-denies-allowing-ukrainian-fighter-jets-to-enter-national-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6066","title":{"rendered":"Romania denies allowing Ukrainian fighter jets to enter national airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian president Nicu\u0219or Dan denied claims by Russia that Ukrainian fighter jets were granted permission to fly over Romanian territory, calling the accusations &#8220;completely false&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/agerpres.ro\/politic\/2025\/07\/25\/nicusor-dan-despre-acuzatiile-privind-survolarea-avioanelor-militare-ucrainene-in-spatiul-romanesc-e--1471174\" target=\"_blank\">Agerpres<\/a> reported on July 25. The president stated he had full access to all relevant information and confirmed that no such authorization had been given.<\/p>\n<p>The denial comes in response to comments made by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who criticized Romania&#8217;s handling of an alleged airspace intrusion by four Ukrainian military aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Romanian Ministry of National Defense, its radar systems detected multiple air targets on the night of July 20-21 near the Maramure\u0219\u2013Suceava border region. The targets were observed flying in Ukrainian airspace near Romania, with four aircraft briefly entering Romanian territory unintentionally at approximately 03:00.<\/p>\n<p>In response, two Romanian F-16 fighter jets were scrambled from the 86th Borcea Air Base at 03:30 for aerial reconnaissance. The Ministry of National Defense reported that a total of 12 Ukrainian aircraft were tracked, all of which were operating near the border. The four that entered Romanian airspace remained for only a few minutes in the areas of Sighetu Marma\u021biei and Vicovu de Sus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These aircraft did not pose any threat to national security, to human lives, or Romanian infrastructure,&#8221; the ministry stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian authorities later confirmed they had relocated aircraft from western Ukrainian airfields as a precaution, following intensified Russian strikes on airport infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian government reiterated that the incident resulted from emergency dispersal measures by Ukraine and was not coordinated with Romanian airspace control.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: Nicu\u0219or Dan on X)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian president Nicu\u0219or Dan denied claims by Russia that Ukrainian fighter jets were granted permission to fly over Romanian territory, calling the accusations &#8220;completely false&#8221;, Agerpres reported on July 25. The president stated he had full access to all relevant information and confirmed that no such authorization had been given. The denial comes in response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}