BREAKING: 🇷🇴 A major Romanian rescue operation is underway in the Black Sea after the cargo ship ROYAD MAMMADOV was reportedly hit by a drone and caught fire around 20 nautical miles off Romania’s coast, near the Pescăruș oil platform. Romania’s Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Constanța was alerted at around 11:00 and immediately requested a search-and-rescue response. According to the Romanian Naval Authority, the ship’s captain was injured and 13 crew members are currently missing. Several rescue vessels have been dispatched to the area, including SAR APOLLO, which departed Sulina, SAR ARTEMIS, which left Constanța, and SAR ARES. A Romanian Coast Guard vessel has also been involved in the response. The vessel, ROYAD MAMMADOV, is a general cargo ship built in 2006 and currently sailing under the flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis. It departed Izmail, Ukraine, on September 18, bound for Ravenna, Italy. The reported incident occurred outside Romania’s territorial waters, but Romanian authorities are leading the immediate search-and-rescue response because of the vessel’s proximity to the Romanian coast.

I crossed into Ukraine through this very border crossing yesterday morning. Russia’s war is creeping ever closer to Moldova and Romania as these drone attacks continue.

‼️Romanian judges have upheld a request by prosecutors to place former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu in pre-trial detention in a case in which he is accused of defrauding a businessman of €1.1 million, according to Digi24 sources. The ruling is final.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr who was appointed ambassador to Greece last year, told an embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to the Romanian government’s fall ft.trib.al/hmEq5iz

O dronă s-a prăbușit între Brăila și Hârșova, azi-noapte. Radarele armatei nu au detectat nimic, dar un cetățean a sunat la 112 și a raportat că un obiect s-a prăbușit pe un câmp, la circa 25 km sud de Brăila, provocând un incendiu care ulterior s-a stins. (Sursa: Bizday).

If the prospect of EU membership is postponed or watered down, one expert explains, the credibility of a “Plan B”, in which Moldova joins Romania, increases economist.com/europe/2026/08…

Romanian politician Călin Georgescu arrived this morning at a Bucharest Court of Appeal for a hearing in a case in which prosecutors accuse him of actions aimed at undermining the constitutional order. Georgescu has denied wrongdoing. #onassignemnt #romania

EXCLUSIVE: A U.S.-based data-extraction firm accused of being secretly run from Russia has worked on EU-backed projects and sold its services to European law enforcement agencies, according to documents seen by POLITICO. politico.eu/article/russia-t…

A push by U.S. energy companies to deepen their influence in the Western Balkans is fueling EU concerns that the region could end up hooked on American fossil fuels. 🔗 politico.eu/article/us-push-…