Romania says it shot down a second drone breaching its airspace

BUCHAREST — Romania said on ​Saturday that it had shot down a second drone breaching national airspace in as many days over a sparsely populated area near the border with Ukraine.

BUCHAREST — Romania said on ​Saturday that it had shot down a second drone breaching national airspace in as many days over a sparsely populated area near the border with Ukraine.

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The ⁠first drone, which Romanian prosecutors investigating the fragments said was Russian, was shot down by the NATO state on Friday, the first time it has done so after dozens of airspace ⁠breaches.

President Nicusor Dan took to ​social ⁠media to say the second drone had been shot down at 8:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. ET), 6 miles ⁠west of Sfantu Gheorghe in the Danube Delta.