‘DANGER TO ALL’:
NATO condemned Moscow’s recklessness, with its secretary-general Mark Rutte affirming that the alliance was ready to defend ‘every inch of Allied territory’
AFP, GALATI, Romania
A Russian drone struck an apartment building in NATO-member Romania early yesterday, wounding two people and prompting strong condemnation from the Atlantic alliance and the EU. Bucharest summoned the Russian ambassador and Romanian President Nicusor Dan convened a national defense council meeting to discuss “the most serious incident to have affected our national territory” since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.The drone smashed into the apartment building in the city of Galati, close to the border with Ukraine, sparking a fire, and sending a 14-year-old boy and a 53-year-old woman to hospital with serious injuries, officials said. Drone incursions in Romania have been detected dozens of times since the start of the war, but the strike marked the first time a residential building has been hit.
Romanian law enforcement officers work on the site of an explosion at a residential block following a drone hit in Galati, Romania, yesterday.
