Romanian military divers destroyed two Gerbera-type drones found drifting near the strategic Neptun Deep offshore gas project in the Black Sea on Tuesday, Aug. 11, weeks after the NATO country began shooting down Russian drones violating its airspace. The drones were discovered in Romania’s exclusive economic zone about 90 nautical miles – roughly 167 kilometers – east of the Black Sea port city of Constanța, acting Defense Minister Radu Miruță reported.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. A civilian vessel working in the area of the Neptun Deep project first spotted the objects and alerted Romanian authorities. A coast guard vessel carrying Romanian military explosive ordnance disposal specialists was then dispatched to the site. Romanian personnel found two drifting UAVs along with several additional pieces of wreckage. Bucharest contacted Ukraine to determine whether the drones could have originated from Ukrainian forces. “The Ministry of National Defense contacted our Ukrainian partners, who confirmed that these systems did not belong to them,” Miruță reported. Romanian authorities ordered the drones destroyed in controlled explosions because of the potential danger they posed to vessels and operations around the offshore energy project. The precise origin of the drones has not yet been established. They were identified as Gerbera-type UAVs, a Russian-produced platform extensively used by Moscow during attacks against Ukraine, including as a decoy, reconnaissance platform and, in some configurations, an attack drone.