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GALATI: Nato accused Moscow on Friday of reckless behaviour and pledged to “defend every inch of allied territory” after Romania said a Russian drone had crashed into an apartment block in the alliance member state during an attack on neighbouring Ukraine.
Romania’s defence ministry said a woman and a child suffered minor injuries in Galati near the border with Ukraine overnight after radar tracked a Russian drone entering Romanian airspace.
Romania later ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in the southeastern city of Constanta and asked the consul to leave the country.
Tass news agency quoted Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for Russia’s foreign ministry, as saying Moscow would respond swiftly to Bucharest’s decision to close the consulate.
