Bucharest, Aug. 16 -- Romania's Ministry of National Defense said on Sunday that a Spanish Air and Space Forces F-18 fighter jet operating under NATO's Air Policing mission shot down an unauthorised drone after it breached Romanian national airspace.

According to the ministry statement posted on X, the surveillance systems first detected the aerial intrusion on the intervening night of August 16 at 04:44 AM local time. The target entered Romanian airspace from the Republic of Moldova.

"On the night of August 15 to 16, at 04:44, the surveillance systems of the Ministry of National Defense detected the intrusion of an aerial target into national airspace, coming from the Republic of Moldova, approximately 24 km north of Galati," the state...