Romania shuts down Russian Consulate General

Romania has decided to close the Russian Consulate General in Constanta and declare the consul general persona non grata.

1news.media informs, citing TASS, Romanian President Nicusor Dan announced this after a meeting of the country’s Supreme Council of National Defense, which discussed the consequences of the drone crash onto a house in the Romanian city of Galati.

"In this situation, the Russian consul general in Constanta has been declared persona non grata, and the Russian Consulate General in Constanta will be closed," the president said, according to remarks broadcast on the presidential administration’s website.

Earlier, the Romanian Defense Ministry reported that a drone had crashed onto the roof of a multifamily building in Galati. Bucharest blamed Russia for the incident.