France said on Friday it had summoned Russia’s ambassador after a series of Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians and a drone crash into an apartment building in Romania.
The drone hit a residential building in Romania, a Nato and EU member state, early on Friday, wounding two people. Nato and the European Union condemned the incident, which was the first time a drone has crashed into a residential building outside Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
“This new irresponsible escalation, carried out in blatant violation of international law, once again shows that Russia’s war of aggression poses a threat to the security of Europe and Nato as a whole,” France’s foreign ministry said.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot earlier said Moscow had targeted “a country of the European Union and a Nato country”.
“I want to condemn this irresponsible act by Russia,” Barrot told France Inter.
