New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- Two Romanian F-16 pilots shot down two jet-powered attack drones over their country's Black Sea waters on Saturday evening, as neighbouring Bulgaria presses NATO for jets to cover the same sea.

43 local time. The first target crossed into national airspace at 17:59 and fell at 18:01. The second crossed at 18:01 and fell at 18:05.

The ministry's later update named the targets as jet-powered attack drones of the Geran family. It said radar had flagged aerial targets in Ukrainian airspace near the Romanian border on eight separate occasions in the previous week, and that on four of them unmanned aircraft briefly entered Romanian airspace. Several merchant ships have also been hit by drones in the Black Sea, it said, i...