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Romanians told to shelter from Russian drones
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66794880
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Romanians living close to the border with Ukraine received emergency alerts early on Wednesday urging them to remain calm and take shelter as Russia hit Ukrainian ports across the Danube.
Shortly after midnight local time, residents in eight villages in eastern Romania started receiving messages on their phones that warned of “the possibility of falling objects from the surrounding airspace”.
“When the sirens wail at night, that’s when you should expect the drones to come,” Costica Tanase, a resident in Plauru on the Ukraine-Romania border told the AFP news agency.
Romania, a member of the Nato defence alliance, has condemned Russian attacks on grain infrastructure in the Ukrainian ports of Izmail and Reni as “unjustified and in serious contradiction with the rules of international humanitarian law”.
Raed Arafat, the head of the emergency services in the area, said the measure was a precaution: “Even though the risk could be around 0.001%, we still need to be prepared and to protect the inhabitants.”
The ports are a vital export route for Ukraine, in particular since Russia pulled out of a UN-brokered deal that allowed safe grain shipments via the Black Sea in July.
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