The New York Times
The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Sunday accused Moscow of “reckless escalation” after a Russian drone flew through Romania’s airspace, the second incursion over a NATO country in less than a week.
Tensions have run high in Eastern Europe’s skies since more than a dozen Russian drones entered Polish airspace last week, prompting NATO to scramble fighter jets to shoot some of them down. That incident drew condemnation from Western officials who called it an escalation of the war in Ukraine. Taken together, the episodes further underscore how drones are making the Ukraine war felt outside the country’s borders.
Kaja Kallas, the E.U.’s foreign policy chief, echoed those sentiments on Sunday after the incident a day earlier in Romania.
“The violation of Romanian airspace by Russian drones is yet another unacceptable breach of an E.U. member state’s sovereignty,” she wrote on social media. “This continued reckless escalation threatens regional security.”
