Romanian border residents fear fallout as frequency of drone alerts rises
ISACCEA, Romania (AP) — The text alerts blare first, then the blasts arrive. For 48-year-old Robert Marian, who lives in Isaccea, a small Romanian border town in eastern Tulcea County along the Danube River with a crossing into Ukraine, the proximity of Russian drone strikes — just hundreds of meters across the river — has...
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