A photo taken on October 19, 2023 shows a mobile rocket launcher of a Mamba medium-range ground-air system, the only one in operation deployed by France, at Capu Midia military base on the Black Sea coast, Corbu, Constanta County, Romania. (Photo by DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP via Getty Images)
MILAN — A Russian drone carrying explosives crashed in an apartment building in Romania overnight, injuring at least two civilians, which marked the first time a stray munition directly struck a residential area in the eastern European country.
Late last night, a drone of Russian origin involved “in the bombing of infrastructure in Ukraine” hit the civilian infrastructure in Galați, Romania, the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Toiu Oana, said in a statement on X.
Two Romania F-16 fighter jets and a helicopter were deployed when the Russian drone was initially detected by radar, with permission to shoot.
However, Romania’s President Nicosur Dan specified in another post on X, that the decision not to engage the target “was taken due since the conditions did not exist to destroy the drone without it heightening [the] risk of endangering civilian safety.”
