{"id":546694,"date":"2026-05-29T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=546694"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:28:41","slug":"romania-closes-russian-consulate-after-drone-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/romania-closes-russian-consulate-after-drone-incident","title":{"rendered":"Romania Closes Russian Consulate After Drone Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Romania is closing Russia\u2019s Consulate General in Constan\u021ba following the crash of a Russian drone into a residential building in Gala\u021bi. The Russian consul general has been declared persona non grata, Romanian President <b>Nicu\u0219or Dan<\/b> said today.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cLast night, we experienced a serious incident in which two Romanian citizens were injured, and full responsibility for this incident lies with Russia \u2014 a country that has been waging an aggressive war against Ukraine for more than four years. In connection with this situation, the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Constan\u021ba has been declared persona non grata, and the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Constan\u021ba will be closed,\u201d<\/i> Dan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ro\/ro\/media\/declaratii-de-presa\/declaratia-de-presa-sustinuta-de-presedintele-romaniei-nicusor-dan-la-finalul-sedintei-consiliului-suprem-de-aparare-a-tarii1780055500\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the drone that crashed was a Russian Geran-2 drone that had arrived from Russia.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe know its trajectory, we know where it passed through Ukraine, we know where it entered Romania, as part of a swarm of 43 Russian drones, of which only one reached Romanian territory,\u201d<\/i> Dan said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred during a Russian attack on Ukraine on the night of May 29, when a Russian drone struck the roof of a 10-story residential building in the city of Gala\u021bi, causing a fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania is closing Russia\u2019s Consulate General in Constan\u021ba following the crash of a Russian drone into a residential building in Gala\u021bi. The Russian consul general has been declared persona non grata, Romanian President Nicu\u0219or Dan said today. \u201cLast night, we experienced a serious incident in which two Romanian citizens were injured, and full responsibility for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":546693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a19a29bd445b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Romania Closes Russian Consulate After Drone Incident"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[143121],"class_list":["post-546694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546694","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=546694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}