A Russian drone struck an apartment building in NATO-member Romania after crossing into the country’s airspace during Moscow’s overnight attacks on Ukraine, Romania’s Defense Ministry said Friday.
The drone crashed onto the roof of an apartment building in Galați, a southeastern Romanian city near the Ukrainian border, triggering a fire and injuring two people, according to emergency services.
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“During the night of May 28-29, the Russian Federation resumed drone attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, near the river border with Romania,” the Romanian Defense Ministry said, according to AFP.
“One of these drones entered Romanian airspace, was tracked by radar as far as the southern part of the city of Galați, and crashed onto the roof of an apartment building, with the impact triggering a fire,” the ministry said.
Emergency services said two people were wounded in the incident.
Romania, a NATO and EU member, has repeatedly reported Russian drone fragments and airspace violations since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But the latest incident marks a serious escalation because a Russian drone struck a residential building inside NATO territory and caused civilian injuries.
The strike occurred as Russia resumed overnight drone attacks on Ukraine’s civilian and infrastructure targets near the Danube River, where Ukrainian ports sit close to Romania’s border.
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