{"id":39198,"date":"2025-11-22T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/romania-scrambled-f-16s-due-to-russian-attack-on-ukraine-near-the-border\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:42:45","slug":"romania-scrambled-f-16s-due-to-russian-attack-on-ukraine-near-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/romania-scrambled-f-16s-due-to-russian-attack-on-ukraine-near-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania scrambled F-16s due to Russian attack on Ukraine near the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets on the night of November 21-22 to monitor the air situation on the border with Ukraine. This happened after intensified Russian attacks and the detection of drones in the Izmail area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F05%2F30%2F1748591391-2458-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Romania scrambled F-16s due to Russian attack on Ukraine near the border\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In Romania, two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled overnight amid a Russian attack on Ukraine near the border, the Romanian Ministry of National Defense announced on Saturday, writes UNN.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets were scrambled from Air Base 86 on the night of November 21-22 to monitor the air situation on the border with Ukraine in the context of attacks carried out by the Russian Federation near the river border with Romania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; reported the Ministry of Defense of Romania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At 01:33 local time, it is stated, &quot;a Ro-Alert message was sent for the north of Tulcea county after intensified attacks and the detection of drones in the Izmail (Ukraine) area.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;No drone incursions into Romanian airspace were recorded, and the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft returned to Air Base 86 Borcea at 03:42 (local time),&quot; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian Ministry of National Defense, it is noted, &quot;constantly maintains a high level of vigilance and ensures strict surveillance of national air, sea and land space.&quot; &quot;We are in constant contact with our allies, exchanging operational information in real time and acting decisively to guarantee the security of Romania and NATO&#039;s eastern flank,&quot; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia attacked the Orlivka ferry crossing point on the border with Romania, operations suspended: consequences shown22.11.25, 10:19 \u2022 1900 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets on the night of November 21-22 to monitor the air situation on the border with Ukraine. This happened after intensified Russian attacks and the detection of drones in the Izmail area. In Romania, two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled overnight amid a Russian attack on Ukraine near the border, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}