The Royal Air Force of Great Britain will start an air policing mission in Romania this week, informs the Ministry of National Defence (MApN).According to the MApN, the certification ceremony of the detachment deployed in Romania to carry out reinforced air policing missions will take place on Tuesday, in Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base 57.Members of the MApN leadership, the ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Bucharest, Giles Portman, representatives of the NATO Air Operations Centre (CAOC) Torrejon and of the British Royal Air Force, as well as the deputy chief of Staff of the Romanian Air Force were invited to the event.The British detachment, made up of approximately 220 pilots and technical staff and six Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, will carry out enhanced air policing missions under the command of NATO, in the next four months, together with Romanian Air Force airmen.This is the fifth rotation at Mihail Kogalniceanu of the British Royal Air Force, after those carried out in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022.Joint air policing missions contribute to the development of reaction and deterrence capacity, as well as to the strengthening of interoperability between the Romanian Air Force and the British Royal Air Force.
TikTok has launched an Election Center dedicated to Romania's upcoming elections as part of its broader effort to protect "the integrity of the platform" and promote access to reliable information. The initiative is supported by a new media literacy campaign and ongoing collaboration with more than 20 fact-checking partners, the company said in a statement. […]
Romanian acting president Ilie Bolojan met on Friday, April 25, with a delegation from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, or ODIHR, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), according to a statement from the presidential administration. The acting president told the delegation that Romania "is faithful to democratic principles […]
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Update: The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an official press release that the Romanian citizen was initially detained in the Abkhazia region four months ago and was later transferred to Sochi, Russia. "Steps have already been taken to provide consular protection and assistance with the central and local authorities, in accordance with international regulations," […]
Russia’s Federal Security Service, FSB, said on Friday, April 25, that it arrested a 23-year-old Romanian citizen on suspicion of spying for Ukraine by sharing the locations of Russian air defense systems. The unnamed man is accused of collecting and transmitting information about air defense sites in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi to […]
