Since 1991, successive U.S. administrations generally treated the Black Sea region (BSR) as peripheral to their relationship with Russia and other parts of Europe. This has finally changed for the better, but it took Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine to jolt the Biden Administration into action. Putin’s war made Ukraine the centrepiece of the BSR, although all littoral states are very important. The future of the BSR will be decided in Ukraine.
A Russian drone crashed on the Great Brăila Island after flying 23 kilometres over Romanian territory at approximately 20:00 on 28 March. Source: European Pravda; HotNews.ro with reference to debraila.
Fragments of a Shahed-type drone were found in Moldova in a field two kilometers from the country's border with Ukraine, the Moldovan Border Police reported on Feb. 17.