{"id":546567,"date":"2026-05-29T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=546567"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:45:13","slug":"geran-2-drone-crashed-into-residential-building-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/geran-2-drone-crashed-into-residential-building-in-romania","title":{"rendered":"Geran-2 Drone Crashed Into Residential Building in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Romania\u2019s Ministry of National Defence has officially identified the type of Russian drone that crashed into an apartment building in the border city of Gala\u021bi overnight. It was a Geran-2 drone, the Russian version of the Shahed unmanned aerial vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cTeams of specialists from the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Romanian Intelligence Service continue their investigation in the area of the apartment building in Gala\u021bi where a drone crashed during the night of May 29. Preliminary information indicates that the entire payload of the Russian-made Geran-2 drone detonated upon impact,\u201d<\/i> the ministry said in a new statement.<\/p>\n<p>Romania\u2019s Foreign Ministry has already informed NATO about the incident. Russia\u2019s ambassador has also been summoned to the ministry, while Romania\u2019s president has convened the Supreme Council of National Defence.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials from Romania\u2019s Ministry of National Defence, speaking at a press conference, the military tracked 50 targets overnight that were attacking Ukrainian port infrastructure near the Romanian border. The drone that crashed in Gala\u021bi was first detected on radar 19 km from the Ukrainian port of Reni. It entered Romanian airspace and disappeared from radar screens three minutes later. Romanian military personnel did not have information at the time on the specific type of drone that had entered the country&#8217;s airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s Ministry of National Defence has officially identified the type of Russian drone that crashed into an apartment building in the border city of Gala\u021bi overnight. It was a Geran-2 drone, the Russian version of the Shahed unmanned aerial vehicle. \u201cTeams of specialists from the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":546547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a19521beb926.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Geran-2 Drone Crashed Into Residential Building in Romania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}