@CostinAndriess Problema de fond nu este cine a controlat drona, ci cum îți permiți tu stat Ro să nu ai protecție pentru asemenea drone la 4 ani de război la intrarea în porturi…ce faci dacă mâine RU îți trimite câteva drone din astea ca a văzut ca oricum nu te poți apăra de ele ?
@Niros_CH ”Este o moștenire de secole”.
cred ca mostenirea asta început de prin 1300-1400 când Țările Române au început să se apere de imperiul otoman…in timpul războiului era otrăvirea fântânilor, iar în timp de pace, exact cum spui:
Carne de porc, câine, etc, exact ce urăște islamul
@NicusorDanRO Asta este și problema, în caz ca nu este evident, ca ”intervenția s-a desfășurat în conformitate cu procedurile și protocoalele stabilite”…și conform procedurilor voastre …o drona a intrat fără nicio problemă în port și a explodat și doar printr-o minune nu au fost victime
@NicusorDanRO Doar pentru ca vasul nu este pe lista UE/SUA, nu înseamnă ca este ok ca vasul ăla să livreze petrol rusesc către RO și RU sa folosească banii pentru război.
Și Ucraina a vrut să impună propriile sancțiuni vasului respectiv, iar RO nu este in stare să apere litoralul, portul, etc
BREAKING: @e_runner2007 pieced together the full truth about the 🇷🇴💥Drone Explosion. https://t.co/4lLtjaqhbH exclusive
On Friday morning, at 10:30, an explosion rocked the Port of Constanta . A Ukrainian Sea Baby drone, more likely a spy drone, being full of radars and monitoring systems, self-destructed.
Minutes earlier, the Romanian authorities, who had visually identified the drone, were urgently notified by the Ukrainians to clear the area so that people would not be in danger.
Over 1,000 people were evacuated from beaches in Constanța County. Activity in the port and the city were also severely affected.
"The naval drone that exploded this morning in the Port of Constanta was part, along with other similar combat means, of a military operation led by Ukraine against Russian aggression," announced President Nicușor Dan.
"Ukrainian forces lost control over those assets as a result of electronic warfare actions undertaken by Russia," the Romanian president also said.
WAR IN THE BLACK SEA. The Ukrainian drone that ran aground in the port of Constanta is a Sea Baby class. Judging by its equipment, it looks more like a reconnaissance and communication drone than one designed for destroying the target – Photo: X/ Twitter
A week after a Kremlin drone hit a block of flats in Galați, another incident directly related to Russia's war of conquest in Ukraine was causing casualties in Romania.
" While carrying out missions in the Black Sea operational area , one of the unmanned naval vessels of the Ukrainian Navy lost control and ended up off the coast of Romania," an official statement from the Ukrainian Navy said.
" The Ukrainian Naval Forces have transmitted the necessary information to the Romanian Naval Forces to prevent losses among the civilian population ," the Kiev authorities' announcement also states .
Official statements show that at least 5 drones were carrying out a military action in the Black Sea, near Romania's territorial waters.
"The drone (exploded in the port - ed.) is said to be of Ukrainian origin. We don't know if that's the case. There is information: one was detonated in international waters, I don't know exactly where, one was in the port of Constanta and there are three more that have strayed. For prevention, we raised the helicopters...", declared Adrian Picoiu, prefect of Constanta county.
Greetings from Safeen Elona
At 09.20, on the morning of June 5, one hour and ten minutes before the explosion in Constanța, the oil tanker Safeen Elona, under the flag of the Marshall Islands, departed from the Port of Midia Năvodari.
The tanker's destination was the city of Novorossiysk. The distance between the port of Midia-Năvodari, to which the Petromidia refinery is connected, and the Russian port is approximately 800 kilometers.
The Ukrainian drone operation in the Black Sea aimed to destroy the oil tanker Safeen Elona, according to sources who wished to remain anonymous due to the complexity of the situation.
TRAFFIC. Safeen Elona, a Russian oil tanker, under the flag of the Marshall Islands, made several fuel shipments through the Black Sea, anchoring in Romanian ports - Photo: Claudio Ritossa/ Marine Traffic
The ship in question is part of Russia's "ghost fleet," with the Kremlin illegally operating dozens of oil tankers to trade fuel, thus violating international sanctions.
On the Ukrainian government website, the Safeen Elona ship is listed as part of Russia's ghost fleet, being marked as an enemy ship because it "transports fossil fuels in violation of sanctions and other restrictions. It transports crude oil and petroleum products from Russia...", according to the authorities in Kiev.
MILITARY TARGET. The Russian ship has been on the Ukrainian government's list of enemy targets since January 2025 - Source: Government of Ukraine
"The tanker, during the G7+ oil embargo, in the context of the policy of capping prices for Russian crude oil and petroleum products, is involved in the export of crude oil and petroleum products from Russian ports and carries out dubious activities near Russian ports on the Black Sea, in the vicinity of Romania and Bulgaria," the description of the ship's hostile actions, made by the Government of Ukraine, according to the cited source, states.
" On April 11, 2025, Ukraine also imposed sanctions on the captain of the vessel with IMO number 9488011. Starting with December 13, 2025, Ukraine imposed sanctions on the vessel," the Kiev authorities announced.
TRAFFIC. Location of the ship Safeen Elona. From which port did it leave, at what time and in which direction was it heading - Source: https://t.co/v3lml4B34H
The army, subtly, blames the police
For over a year and a half, the oil tanker Safeen Elona has been on the list of Russia's "ghost fleet", a fleet of oil tankers that several European states are fighting, and the Romanian government, institutions and agencies have stood idly by and watched as the Russian ship cruised through Năvodari and Constanța.
In addition to the transport made today, according to the data held by the Ukrainians, since the moment of entry on the sanctions list, the ship has been spotted at least twice in Romanian ports on the Black Sea.
ROUTE. Infographic, distance Constanta - Novorossîisk, Russia - Graphics: https://t.co/85bfsrhQXl Google Maps
Spotmedia sent questions about the situation to both the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior.
Shortly after, without directly answering our publication's questions, Radu Miruță issued an official statement:
"Together with the Minister of Internal Affairs, Cătălin Predoiu, we will have a videoconference with our Ukrainian counterparts in the coming period, to establish faster and more efficient communication procedures and mechanisms in such situations ," the statement said.
"We must understand the reality we find ourselves in. Ukraine is a country at war, and Romania is on the border of this conflict. Incidents like today's are undesirable, but they can occur. Our responsibility is to be prepared and to intervene quickly, so that any risk is kept under control," the Minister of Defense added.
The official also emphasized that officers "from the Ministry of Interior, who had operational responsibility in the area, intervened immediately and took measures to protect both the population and naval access to the port, as well as to check the naval traffic monitoring equipment."
The problem was that, again, the checks were done post factum. The Russian ship had long since left. It was out at sea.
ROUTE. Position of the Russian ship Safeen Elona in relation to the port of Constanta on the afternoon of May 5 - Source: https://t.co/v3lml4B34H
New effects of Romanian strategic ambiguity
Ukrainian naval forces carried out several operations to destroy Russian oil tankers on the morning of June 5. In addition to the operation in the Black Sea, one also took place in the northern Sea of Azov, where they destroyed, with the help of naval drones, two oil tankers, Natra and Tsirkon, operated by Russia, with crews from Azerbaijan.
Since the beginning of the actions to destroy the phantom fleet of Russian oil tankers, Ukraine, together with NATO member states, not Romania, have decommissioned 21 ships - 2 sunk, 9 damaged, 10 detained.
Once again, complicity within the Romanian state, corruption and strategic ambiguity generated a critical situation in which the population was put at risk.
If the Russian ship, Safeen Elona, had not operated illegally in Romanian territorial waters for over a year and a half, transporting the Kremlin's oil, the situation would not have been created in which Ukrainian forces would conduct defensive military operations near the port of Constanta