Visit. The President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, has today received the Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, on the occasion of his visit to Cincu, in Brasov County (centre). The two will have political consultations and will visit together the troops stationed at the Getica National Training Center in Cincu. Iohannis and Bettel will address the Luxembourg military who are part of the NATO Battle Group in Romania, the Presidential Administration reports. Also, the Romanian president and the Luxembourg prime minister will discuss the strengthening of the deterrent posture on NATO’s eastern flank and the continuation of the support offered to Ukraine and the countries in the region, with an emphasis on the Republic of Moldova, a state seriously affected by the consequences of the war of aggression started by Russia against Ukraine.
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Drones. The Romanian Ministry of Defense, through a spokesperson quoted by the media, has denied the information according to which Russian drones fell and exploded on Romanian territory, during the overnight attack on the Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Danube. Previously, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv had stated that the drones would have also reached the territory of neighboring Romania, after Russia „massively” attacked, once again, the Ukrainian Odesa region. The local governor, Oleg Kiper, announced that „seventeen drones were shot down by our air defense forces”, but „in several localities of the Izmail district, warehouses and production buildings, agricultural machines and machinery of industrial enterprises were damaged”. The attack, the governor says, lasted three and a half hours and caused no casualties. The port of Izmail on the Danube, close to the border with Romania, has become an important outlet for Ukrainian exports, after Russia withdrew from the agreement on grain transit through the Black Sea in July.
