Ukraine said on Sunday that Russian drones struck “civilian industrial” sites in the Danube region in the southwest of the country near Romania. “The enemy has attacked civilian industrial infrastructure in the Danube region,” Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said on Telegram.
“The attack injured two people, who were hospitalized,” he added. However, according to the prosecutor, Ukrainian forces managed to shoot down 22 of the 25 drones used in this attack.
The Russian army, for its part, indicated that it had carried out a drone attack against the port of Reni, on the border with Romania, a NATO member country. “Overnight, the Russian Air Force carried out a group strike with drones on fuel depots used to refuel military equipment of the Ukrainian army in the port of Reni,” the Russian Defense Ministry said, assuring that the objective of the strike had been “achieved” and all targets hit.
Quickly, the Romanian Ministry of Defense strongly condemned Russian drone attacks near its border with Ukraine. The ministry “reaffirms in the strongest possible terms that these attacks against civilian targets and infrastructure in Ukraine are unjustified and in profound contradiction to the rules of international humanitarian law”. “At no time” did the Russian attacks “generate a direct military threat to Romania’s national territory or territorial waters”, he said.
Installations on the Danube, including the port of Reni and Ismail, have already been targeted by Russian forces and Romania condemned these attacks at the time. After the suspension of the agreement that allowed Ukraine to safely export its cereals via the Black Sea, Russia increased its attacks on the regions of Odessa and Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, where there are ports and other critical infrastructure for this trade.
