Overview
- A Russian-made Geran-2 drone crashed into a 10-storey apartment block in Galați on May 29, injuring two civilians and marking the first such incident in Romania to cause casualties.
- Romanian authorities say pilots tracked the incoming drone but chose not to fire missiles because interceptions over built-up areas risked further civilian harm.
- Romania has presented allies with a detailed list of needs and several NATO and EU countries are preparing to provide extra radar coverage, fighter jets for air policing and anti-drone technology as a short-term bridge.
- Bucharest plans a roughly €2 billion long-term modernisation of air defences and a €200 million joint project with Ukraine to produce counter-drone systems that can address low-cost aerial threats.
- The strike has prompted diplomatic condemnations and questions for Moscow, which urges further wreckage analysis, while Romania points to more than 40 earlier drone incursions and growing spillover risks along its border and in the Black Sea.