A Romanian F-16 fighter jet shot down a drone over Romania on Friday.

Axar.az reports, citing Euronews, Romanian President Nicusor Dan said the incident occurred at around 11 am and that an investigation has since been launched.

"The area was uninhabited, so the pilot was able to fire without any risk," he wrote in a post on X.

Providing further details on the incident, Romania's Ministry of Defence said a jet attached to the 86th air base at Fetești in eastern Romania engaged the drone with an air-to-air missile while carrying out an air policing mission.

The drone was intercepted over an "unpopulated area" around Padina, northeast of the capital, Bucharest, per the ministry.

The unmanned aerial vehicle had been picked up by radars at around 9:40 a.m on Friday morning over the Black Sea, it said. It then moved west towards the port town of Sulina and towards the city of Buzău, the ministry added in a statement.

Two Italian air force Eurofighter Typhoon jets operating out of the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base were scrambled along with two Romanian air force F-16s to monitor the situation, according to the defence ministry.