Two Spanish F-18 fighter jets, which were already on alert as a precaution, received authorisation to intervene at 04:44 on Sunday morning. The drone was sighted 24 kilometres north of the town of Galati.
The drone, whose origin has not been confirmed by the Romanian authorities, was intercepted and destroyed between the towns of Baleni and Cudalbi, in the south-east of the country, in an area close to the border with Moldova.
