{"id":1398849,"date":"2026-05-29T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russian-drone-flies-into-romania-and-hits-residential-building\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:35:34","slug":"russian-drone-flies-into-romania-and-hits-residential-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russian-drone-flies-into-romania-and-hits-residential-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian drone flies into Romania and hits residential building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the Romanian city of Galati, a Russian drone crashed into a residential building on May 29. After the impact, a fire broke out on the top floor, and two people were injured.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mapn.ro\/cpresa\/6785_press-release\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Romanian Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p> According to the agency, the drone flew into the country&#8217;s airspace during another Russian attack on Ukraine near the Danube border.<\/p>\n<p> A drone crashed onto the roof of an apartment building in Galati. The explosion occurred in an apartment on the 10th floor, after which a fire broke out. Medics provided assistance to two victims, who were hospitalized with minor injuries. About 70 other residents of the building had to be evacuated.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1398849-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f4b47577-mobile.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f4b47577-mobile.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f4b47577-mobile.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p> &#8220;A drone entered Romanian airspace and crashed into the roof of a residential building, causing a fire,&#8221; the country&#8217;s Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1398849-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/357e9829-mobile.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/357e9829-mobile.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/357e9829-mobile.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p> During the alert, two F-16 fighter jets were raised into the sky. The military monitored the drone&#8217;s movement from the border until it fell. According to preliminary information, it was a Russian Geran-2 drone.<\/p>\n<p> Romanian Defense Ministry spokesman Cristian Popovic explained why the drone was not shot down.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We cannot create an even greater threat to civilians than the one we are trying to eliminate,&#8221; he said on Digi24.<\/p>\n<p> The Romanian Defense Ministry also recalled that since the start of the full-scale war, Russian drone debris has been found dozens of times in the country. Such incidents have been recorded at least 12 times since the beginning of this year alone.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on the night of April 25, Romania <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-rumunii-vpaly-ulamky-droniv-pid-chas-masovanoi-ataky-rf-na-ukrainu-ie-ruynuvannia\/\">recorded the fall of drone debris near the border with Ukraine during a Russian attack<\/a> . The incident damaged infrastructure, but there were no casualties.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Romanian city of Galati, a Russian drone crashed into a residential building on May 29. After the impact, a fire broke out on the top floor, and two people were injured. This was reported by the Romanian Ministry of Defense. According to the agency, the drone flew into the country&#8217;s airspace during another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1398832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76874],"class_list":["post-1398849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1398832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}