{"id":1399216,"date":"2026-05-29T16:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/romania-closes-russian-consulate-after-russian-drone-hits-building\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:36:58","slug":"romania-closes-russian-consulate-after-russian-drone-hits-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/romania-closes-russian-consulate-after-russian-drone-hits-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania closes Russian consulate after Russian drone hits building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Romanian President Nikos Dan announced the closure of the Russian Consulate General in Constanta and the expulsion of the Russian consul after a Russian drone crashed into a residential building in Galati, injuring two civilians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romaniajournal.ro\/politics\/romania-closes-russian-consulate-in-constanta-expels-consul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romania Journal<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> The decision was made after an emergency meeting of Romania&#8217;s Supreme National Defense Council, which was called due to the nighttime incident with the Russian Geran-2 drone. Nikusor Dan said that <strong>Romania places full responsibility for the incident on Russia<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We had a serious incident last night, which injured two Romanian citizens, and full responsibility for this lies with Russia,&#8221; the Romanian president said.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, the Russian consul in Constanta has been declared persona non grata, and the consular mission will be closed. After that, only the Russian embassy in Bucharest and the consular department at the embassy will remain in Romania.<\/p>\n<p> The Romanian president also said that the drone that hit the residential building in Galati was part of a group of 43 drones that Russia directed at targets in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, Nikusor Dan criticized Romanian politicians, who, according to him, <strong>tried to downplay Russia&#8217;s responsibility for the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2424\" data-end=\"2606\"> Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dron-rf-zaletiv-u-rumuniiu-ta-vluchyv-u-zhytlovyy-budynok\/\">&#8220;Pryamiy&#8221; reported<\/a> that in the Romanian city of Galati on May 29, a Russian drone crashed into a residential building. After the impact, a fire broke out, and two people were injured.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2608\" data-end=\"2764\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Later, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nato-zvynuvatylo-rf-u-bezvidpovidalnosti-pislia-padinnia-drona-v-rumunii-detali\/\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">NATO<\/span><\/span> condemned<\/a> the downing of a Russian drone on a residential building in Romania and called the Russian Federation&#8217;s actions irresponsible. The Romanian Foreign Minister stated that after the incident with the drone falling on a residential building in Romania, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/padinnia-drona-v-rumunii-u-mzs-zahovoryly-pro-4-tu-stattiu-nato\/\">NATO may apply Article 4 on consultations with allies.<\/a><\/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>Romanian President Nikos Dan announced the closure of the Russian Consulate General in Constanta and the expulsion of the Russian consul after a Russian drone crashed into a residential building in Galati, injuring two civilians. This is reported by Romania Journal . The decision was made after an emergency meeting of Romania&#8217;s Supreme National Defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1398832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76885,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1399216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399216","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399216\/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=1399216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}