Romania Scrambled Its Air Force Due To Three Aerial Objects Near The Border

• 14.10.2026, 10:15

The targets were detected near the Ukrainian town of Vilkovo.

On the morning of Wednesday, October 14, the Romanian radar surveillance system detected aerial targets moving near Vilkovo in Ukraine, not far from the border with Romania.

This stated in a statement by the Romanian Ministry of Defense in H.

The National Military Command Center informed the General Directorate for Emergency Situations so that measures could be taken to alert the population in the north of Tulcea County. A RO-Alert message was sent at 6:39 a.m.

Two Romanian Air Force F-16s and one IAR-330 SOCAT helicopter were scrambled.

According to data provided by radar surveillance systems, these three aerial targets did not violate Romanian airspace.