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An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna made an emergency landing in Bulgaria after a bomb threat was reported near the Bulgarian-Romanian border. A MiG-29 fighter jet escorted the plane.
Romanian Air Force F-16s shot down drones over Romanian territorial waters. Earlier this week, two chemical tankers were hit by drones near Romania's Black Sea coast.
Rescuers searched on Thursday for seven missing sailors after drones struck two chemical tankers near Romania's Black Sea coast, setting them ablaze and raising fresh security concerns along a vital shipping route used by Ukraine. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Europe editor Armen Georgian, Nicolae Stefanuta, Romanian MEP and Co-Chair of the Group of the Greens, says that the Danube delta region is facing a more intense threat from Russia than Baltic States and that "it is clear that sooner or later we will have European casualties".
Two chemical tankers have caught fire in Romanian territorial waters in the Black Sea. The blazes occurred after Russian drones were sighted in Romanian airspace.
The latest suspected incursion on NATO's eastern flank increases fears that the war in Ukraine threatens to spill over.
Romanian authorities did not say what caused the fire, but local media reported that the ship was carrying grain and was hit by a drone.
Incursions by Russian drones into Moldovan and Romanian airspace are increasingly common. This week the Ukrainian president's plane was stopped from taking off from Chisinau. Observers suspect the attacks are deliberate.
