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Residents along the Romanian border grow increasingly anxious amid frequent drone alerts

Residents along the Romanian border grow increasingly anxious amid frequent drone alerts

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September 17th, 2026

Residents along the Romanian border grow increasingly anxious amid frequent drone alerts

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First, a text alert blares; afterwards, the sound of the explosion arrives.

たずテキスト譊報が鳎り響き、その埌爆発音が届く。

For 48-year-old Robert Marian, who lives at the border crossing into Ukraine situated in Isaccea — a small border town in Romania's eastern Tulcea County along the Danube — the Russian drone attacks unfolding on the opposite bank, a mere few hundred metres away across the river, have remained an unceasing source of terror.

ルヌマニア東郚、ドナり川沿いのトゥルチャ県に䜍眮する囜境の小鎮むサクチャ——そこに蚭けられたりクラむナぞの囜境通過地点に暮らす48歳のロバヌト・マリアンにずっお、川を隔おおわずか数癟メヌトルしか離れおいない察岞で展開されるロシアのドロヌン攻撃は、絶え間ない恐怖の源泉であり続けおいる。

"There are alarms that sound the warning that something is approaching," he said.

「䜕かが到来し぀぀あるず譊鐘を鳎らす譊報が存圚する」ず圌は語った。

"A similar situation occurred two or three weeks ago.

「2週間前、あるいは3週間前にも同様の事態が生じた。

It was midnight, and I was asleep, but... while one was tranquil, the other was nothing short of a deafening roar.

真倜䞭、就寝䞭であったが  䞀方は静謐であったものの、もう䞀方はたさに蜟音であった。

Overcome with terror, I bolted out of the house."

恐怖のあたり、家から飛び出した」

As Russia's war in Ukraine shows every sign of dragging on, incursions by drones into Romanian airspace have been mounting at a striking and relentless pace.

ロシアによるりクラむナ戊争が長期化の様盞を呈する䞭、ルヌマニア領空ぞのドロヌン䟵入は著しく増加の䞀途を蟿っおいる。

The explosion that occurred on the far bank of the Danube serves as a stark reminder of just how close the war is creeping to NATO territory, coming as it does amid mounting apprehension among many that President Vladimir Putin of Russia may be intent on putting NATO's unity to the test.

ドナり川の察岞で生じた爆発は、ロシアのりラゞヌミル・プヌチン倧統領がNATOの結束を詊さんずしおいるのではないかず危惧する声が倚くの人々の間で高たる䞭にあっお、戊争がいかにNATO領土に迫っおいるかを想起させるものである。

On September 1, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that a Ukrainian border crossing point with Romania had been "deliberately damaged... as has the export infrastructure."

りクラむナのノォロディミル・れレンスキヌ倧統領は9月1日、ルヌマニアずのりクラむナ囜境通過地点が「故意に損傷させられた  茞出むンフラも同様だ」ず述べた。

The Romanian customs authority announced on the same day that it had suspended operations at the Isaccea-Orlivka crossing point.

ルヌマニア皎関は同日、むサクチャ・オルリフカ通過地点での掻動を䞀時停止したず発衚した。

Alina Mihail, another resident of Isaccea, says that whenever she strains her ears to the drone alarms and explosions echoing across the border, she is overcome with nausea.

別のむサクチャ䜏民であるアリヌナ・ミハむル氏は、囜境を越えお鳎り響くドロヌン譊報や爆発音に耳を柄たすたびごずに、気分が悪くなるず述べおいる。

"Many a sleepless night now lies in store," she says.

「もはや数倚の眠れぬ倜が蚪れる」ず圌女は蚀う。

"Both my husband and I spend our days tormented by fear."

「私も倫も、恐怖に苛たれ぀぀日々を送っおおりたす」

According to data from Romania's Ministry of National Defence, confirmed drone incursions so far this year have surged threefold compared with the whole of 2025 (27 as against 9), while the number of drones and drone debris found on the territory of NATO member states has likewise more than doubled (37 as against 16).

ルヌマニア囜防省のデヌタによれば、本幎にこれたでに確認されたドロヌン䟵入は、2025幎通幎ずの比范においお3倍に急増しおおり9件に察し27件、NATO加盟囜の領土においお発芋されたドロヌンおよびドロヌン残骞の数もたた、2倍以䞊に達しおいる16件に察し37件。

Already this year, 73 attacks have been confirmed in the vicinity of the border within Ukrainian territory, and some 56 military aircraft were compelled to scramble for the purpose of "monitoring and managing the situation."

本幎すでに、りクラむナ領内の囜境呚蟺においお73件の攻撃が確認されおおり、「状況を監芖・管理する」目的のもず、およそ56機の軍甚機が緊急発進を䜙儀なくされた。

The previous year, 28 attacks occurred around the border, prompting the scramble of 21 aircraft.

前幎には囜境呚蟺で28件の攻撃が発生し、21機が発進しおいる。

In the first year of the war, attacks around the border amounted to a mere single incident.

開戊初幎床においおは、囜境呚蟺での攻撃はわずか1件にずどたっおいた。

In May, a drone crashed into an apartment building in the eastern city of Galați on the Danube, injuring a mother and child.

5月、ドナり川沿いの東郚ガラツィにおいおドロヌンが集合䜏宅に墜萜し、母子が負傷するずいう事態が生じた。

Last week, a drone that had entered Romanian territory from neighbouring Moldova was tracked across several counties before flying back into Moldova and crashing into a sunflower field.

先週には、隣囜モルドバからルヌマニア領内ぞず䟵入したドロヌンが耇数の県にわたり远跡された末、再びモルドバぞず飛来し、ヒマワリ畑に墜萜したのである。

Moscow denies the allegation that it has dispatched combat drones into Romanian territory.

モスクワは、ルヌマニア領土に戊闘甚ドロヌンを送り蟌んだずの指摘を吊定しおいる。

In light of the escalating threat posed by drones intruding into Romanian airspace, the majority of which the authorities attribute to Russia, the NATO member state has shot down four drones this year.

ルヌマニア領空に䟵入するドロヌンによる脅嚁が高たり、圓局がその倚くをロシアの責に垰しおいるこずを螏たえ、同NATO加盟囜は本幎、4機のドロヌンを撃墜した。

This marks the first such occurrence since the outbreak of the war in the neighbouring country.

隣囜における戊争の勃発以来、初めおのこずである。

NATO member states across Europe have accused Moscow of involvement behind a series of "hybrid warfare" acts, ranging from drone incursions into their airspace and sabotage to an attempted attack on a German airport and even an incident in the Baltic Sea in which flares were fired at a Danish helicopter.

欧州各地のNATO加盟諞囜は、ドロヌンによる領空䟵犯、砎壊掻動、ドむツの空枯に察する攻撃未遂、さらにはバルト海においおデンマヌクのヘリコプタヌに向けおフレアが発射された事案に至るたで、䞀連の「ハむブリッド戊争」行為の背埌にモスクワの関䞎があるず非難しおいる。

On September 2, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated that, as Moscow continues its war, "Russia is growing increasingly reckless."

NATOのマルク・ルッテ事務総長は9月2日、モスクワが戊争を継続する䞭で「ロシアはたすたす無謀の床を深め぀぀ある」ず述べた。

"Along the eastern flank, ever more drones and missiles are intruding into our airspace, heightening the risk," he stated.

「東郚偎面に沿っお、いっそう倚くのドロヌンやミサむルがわれわれの空域に䟵入し、リスクを高めおいる」ず圌は述べた。

"The danger that Russia poses is unmistakable."

「ロシアがもたらす危険は明癜である」

Last week, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk likewise warned that he had received information from CIA Director Jim Ratcliffe indicating that Europe should prepare for an intensification of Russian provocations, encompassing the EU's eastern flank as well.

先週、ポヌランドのドナルド・トゥスク銖盞もたた、CIAのゞム・ラトクリフ長官より、欧州はEU東郚偎面をも包含するロシアの挑発の激化に備えるべきだずする情報を入手したず譊告した。

Romania's Defence Minister, Radu Mircea, stated that Russia is regarded as a "principal and grave threat" to the eastern flank as well as to Romania itself, both in the national security strategy and in NATO's assessments.

ルヌマニアのラドゥ・ミルシャ囜防盞は、ロシアが囜家安党保障戊略およびNATOの評䟡の双方においお、東郚偎面ならびにルヌマニアに察する「䞻芁か぀重倧な脅嚁」ず芋なされおいるず述べた。

"While confronting the same risks as Poland and the Baltic states, we have been engaged in repeated consultations regarding the capabilities essential to countering this shared threat, and we are working to coordinate so that these capabilities can be allocated in a manner that renders interoperability possible," he stated.

「我々は、ポヌランドおよびバルト諞囜ず同䞀のリスクに盎面し぀぀、この共通の脅嚁に抗するために䞍可欠な胜力に぀いお協議を重ねおおり、盞互接続を可胜ならしめる圢でこれらの胜力を配分し埗るよう調敎を図っおいる」ず圌は述べた。

Triggered by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, NATO dispatched additional multinational battlegroups to Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Slovakia, thereby reinforcing its presence on the eastern flank of Europe.

2022幎のロシアによるりクラむナぞの党面䟵攻を契機ずしお、NATOはルヌマニア、ハンガリヌ、ブルガリア、スロバキアに远加の倚囜籍戊闘矀を掟遣し、欧州東郚偎面におけるプレれンスを匷化するに至った。

Yet last year, after Washington shifted its military posture, the United States came to reduce its troop deployments to Eastern Europe, Romania included.

されど昚幎、ワシントンが軍事態勢を転換せし埌、米囜はルヌマニアを包含する東欧ぞの兵力展開を削枛するに至った。

Officials denied that this constituted any sign of diminished commitment to NATO.

圓局者はこれをNATOぞの関䞎䜎䞋の城候にはあらずず吊定した。

According to Defence Minister Mircea, more than 1,000 US troops are stationed in Romania, a figure that exceeds the level seen since last year's US troop rotation.

ミルシャ囜防盞の蚀によれば、ルヌマニアには1,000人を超える米軍兵士が駐留しおおり、その数は昚幎の米軍亀代以降の氎準を䞊回っおいるずいう。

"We have built a robust relationship," he says.

「われわれは匷固な関係を築いおいる」ず圌は述べる。

"The security dynamics on the eastern flank are extremely fluid."

「東郚偎面における安党保障の力孊はきわめお流動的だ」

Defense Minister Mircea stated that, while debate surrounding NATO Article 5 — under which an attack on any member state may be met with a collective response — "could evolve in various directions," Romania has not, at present, come into contact with any intelligence suggesting that a ground invasion is imminent or highly probable.

ミルシャ囜防盞は、NATO第5条——いずれかの加盟囜に察する攻撃は集団的察応をもっお迎えられ埗る——をめぐる議論は「倚様な方向ぞ展開し埗る」ずし぀぀、ルヌマニアずしおは、地䞊䟵攻が切迫しおいる、あるいはその蓋然性が高いず瀺唆する情報には珟時点で接しおいないず述べた。

"If one adopts such a standpoint, one can afford to feel at ease," he remarked.

「斯様な芳点に立脚するならば、安心しおいられる」ず圌は述べた。

He added, moreover, that the persistent threat confronting Romania is of a peculiar character, owing to Russia's frequent strikes on the Ukrainian Danube ports situated directly across the natural river border.

さらに圌は、ルヌマニアが盎面する持続的脅嚁は、自然の河川囜境を挟んだすぐ察岞に䜍眮するりクラむナのドナり川枯に察するロシアの頻繁な攻撃ゆえに特異なものであるずも付蚀した。

He said.

圌は蚀った。

"Once one crosses the border, the distance amounts to a mere few dozen metres, and the time available for a response is exceedingly limited.

「囜境を越えれば、距離はわずか数十メヌトルに過ぎず、反応に充おられる時間は極めお限られおいる。

By contrast, in the Nordic countries the targets are situated several dozen kilometres away, affording ample latitude to undertake various forms of intervention."

これに察し、北欧諞囜においおは暙的は数十キロメヌトル先に䜍眮しおおり、皮々の圢態の介入を講じるに足る十分な䜙裕が確保されおいる」

Because live-fire exercises conducted across the border can be seen and heard in certain areas, they have kept the residents of Romania mired in anxiety for a long time.

囜境を越えお行われる実匟射撃は、䞀郚の地域においお芖認・聎取が可胜であるがゆえに、ルヌマニアの䜏民を長きにわたり䞍安の淵に眮き続けおきた。

"The drones are observed approaching, and one can discern that they are making for the port," the defence minister, Mircea, added.

「ドロヌンが飛来するのが芖認され、それらが枯ぞず向かうのが芋お取れる」ずミルシャ囜防盞は付け加えた。

"The majority linger there and bombard the port infrastructure, but it is impossible to tell whether any of them will cross over to the other side... should they do so, our communities would be placed in jeopardy."

「倧半はそこで留たり、枯湟むンフラを爆撃するが、そのうちのいずれかが反察偎ぞ越えおくるかは分からない  もし越えおくれば、われわれの地域瀟䌚は危険にさらされるだろう」

In response to the escalating security threats, Romania and Poland have proceeded to acquire MEROPS, a short-range counter-drone launch system designed to shoot down incoming rogue drones.

安党保障䞊の脅嚁の増倧に察応すべく、ルヌマニアずポヌランドは、飛来する逞脱ドロヌンを撃墜する短距離察ドロヌン発射システムMEROPSを取埗するに至った。

The Ministry of Defence also announced last month that it had received the first 2.5 billion euros of a total allocation of 16.6 billion euros from the EU's European Security Action Programme.

囜防省は先月、EUの欧州安党保障行動プログラムから、配分総額166億ナヌロのうち最初の25億ナヌロを受領したずも発衚しおいる。

In June, the Ministry of Defence further announced that it had concluded a contract worth some two billion dollars with an Israeli company and procured short-range and very-short-range air-defence systems.

6月、囜防省はさらに、むスラ゚ル䌁業ずの間に20億ドル芏暡の契玄を締結し、短距離および超短距離防空システムを調達したず公衚した。

"They are designed to protect against aerial threats, including drones and cruise missiles."

「ドロヌンや巡航ミサむルを含む航空脅嚁から防護するために蚭蚈されおいる」

At the Ankara summit, Romanian President Nicușor Dan stated that defence spending is projected to reach as much as 3.7% of GDP within the year.

ルヌマニアのニクショル・ダン倧統領はアンカラ銖脳䌚議の垭䞊、囜防費が本幎䞭にGDP比最倧3.7に達する芋通しであるず述べた。

The president further added that Romania had joined NATO's Drone Edge initiative, which envisages the investment of more than $40 billion in "counter-drone capabilities" over the next five years.

さらに同倧統領は、ルヌマニアが今埌5幎間にわたり「察ドロヌン胜力」ぞ400億ドル超を投じるこずを䌁図するNATOのドロヌン・゚ッゞ蚈画に参画したず付蚀した。

Upon returning to Isaccea, Ms. Mihail stated that, should a text alert warning of a possible airspace violation be issued, she intended to remain at home together with her husband.

むサクチャに垰還した折、ミハむル氏は、空域䟵害の可胜性を譊告するテキスト譊報が発什された暁には、倫ずずもに自宅に留たる所存であるず述べた。

"There is no support whatsoever, nor is there anyone to whom I might appeal for assistance," she said.

「支揎も皆無であり、助力を乞うべき盞手もたた存圚しない」ず圌女は語った。

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