Bucharest, July 27 (IANS) Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said Monday that a member of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest had been declared undesirable (persona non grata) and ordered to leave the country within five days. The Foreign Ministry summoned the Ambassador of Russia to its headquarters upon the instructions of Romanian Foreign Minister Oana-Silvia Toiu.“The summoning came as a firm response to the repeated violations of Romania’s airspace between 24 and 26 July 2026, d…
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Bucharest, July 24 (IANS) Romanian President Nicusor Dan said Friday that Romania shot down a drone breaching its airspace in Buzau County.He said that the authorities are conducting investigations at the scene of the incident to establish all the circumstances in which the drone entered Romania’s airspace and to identify it, Xinhua News Agency reported.”It is important to note that the area was uninhabited, which is why the pilot was able to fire from above,” Dan added.Romania’s Ministry of Nat…
Moscow, June 25 (IANS) Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday it had summoned Romanian Ambassador Cristian Istrate to formally inform Bucharest regarding the retaliatory measures over the closure of the Russian Consulate General in Constanta.”Romania’s ambassador has been called to the Russian Foreign Ministry to be notified of Moscow’s response to the closure of its consulate in Constanta,” Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.According to the Ministry, the Ambassador was presented with …
Bucharest, May 29 (IANS) A Russian drone entered Romanian airspace and crashed into a residential apartment building, sparking a fire and injuring two people, Romania’s National Defence Ministry announced on Friday.According to the ministry, the injured individuals were taken to the Galati County Emergency Clinical Hospital.It said that during the night from Thursday to Friday, Russia resumed drone attacks against targets in Ukraine, in the vicinity of Romania’s river border.A drone entered Roma…
Rome, May 29 (IANS) The overnight Russian drone strike on a residential building in Romania’s eastern city of Galati is a threat to European security, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated on Friday, deploring the “extremely serious act”.”Last night, a Russian drone struck a civilian building in Romania, injuring two citizens on the territory of an allied country and a member of the European Union,” read Meloni’s statement.”This is an extremely serious act, which demonstrates that this wa…