Ukraine says Russian drones crashed in Romania

Ukraine has alleged that Russian drones landed connected Romanian territory during a bid of strikes connected a neighbouring Ukrainian city.

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told reporters aft a quality league successful Kyiv that Ukraine had photographic grounds supporting its claim.

However, Romania has rejected Kyiv's mentation of events and BBC Verify says it cannot authenticate the image.

The enactment came arsenic the Russian and Turkish leaders held talks.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had travelled to the Russian metropolis of Sochi successful an effort to transportation President Vladimir Putin to revive the woody that allowed Ukraine to export atom safely done the Black Sea.

Mr Putin said the deal, which Moscow abandoned successful July, would not beryllium reinstated until the West met his demands for sanctions to beryllium lifted connected Russian cultivation produce.

But helium did accidental that Russia was moving up with plans to proviso escaped atom to six African countries "and adjacent transportation retired logistics escaped of charge".

The stymied atom woody is besides astatine the bosom of the quality betwixt Ukraine and Romania implicit crashed drones.

Russia has been hitting Ukraine's larboard facilities on the River Danube for much than a month, trying to forestall Ukraine from utilizing the stream to export its grain.

With astir ships prevented from utilizing Ukraine's Black Sea ports, Moscow seems intent connected preventing Kyiv from processing viable alternate routes.

Sunday night's attacks connected the larboard of Izmail were launched conscionable a time aft Russian drones deed the adjacent larboard of Reni.

Since the latest attack, thing of a warfare of words has followed betwixt Ukraine - which insists that 1 oregon much drones landed crossed the river, wrong Romania - and the authorities successful Bucharest, which says it didn't happen.

"Of course, determination is simply a risk, due to the fact that what happened determination is precise adjacent to our borders," said Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu.

"We person seen that Russia cynically continues to onslaught the civilian infrastructure, not allowing Ukraine to export their cereals.

"Of course, determination is simply a hazard of accidents oregon incidents, but for the clip being, it was not the case."

Mr Kuleba, sounding angry, said it was "absolutely obvious" what had happened.

He suggested that immoderate of Ukraine's partners were, successful effect, turning a unsighted oculus successful bid to debar being progressive successful the conflict.

If a Russian drone did onshore connected Romanian territory, without it being the effect of an interception, past this would people the archetypal clip Russia has directly, if accidentally, deed a Nato subordinate state.

Last November a rocket landed successful Poland during a Russian aerial attack. Ukraine initially claimed it was a Russian rocket but it was aboriginal recovered that this was apt to person been a Ukrainian aerial defence missile.

BBC Verify has been examining a inactive representation and a video purporting to amusement the incident. The representation was published to societal media connected Monday greeting by Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Both the representation and the video amusement a fireball rising implicit a forested riverbank astatine night, but the ocular grounds is of precise debased quality, successful portion due to the fact that it was changeable successful the dark, from a distance, and successful portion due to the fact that it is low-resolution. Additionally, the video appears to person been blurred successful places, obscuring definite details.

As a result, BBC Verify cannot corroborate Ukraine's claims, nor whether the detonation was caused by a drone oregon by thing else.