Drone hits apartment block in Romania during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

A drone struck an apartment building in Romania and exploded, injuring two people, after Russia launched an attack on a nearby Ukrainian port, Romania's defense ministry said Friday, Report informs via CNN.

"During the night of May 28-29, the Russian Federation resumed drone attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, near the river border with Romania," the ministry said.

The drone hit the roof of a building in Galati, near the border with Ukraine, according to CNN affiliate Antena 3 CNN.

"This drone entered national airspace at 1:54 a.m. (GMT+3) and headed toward the eastern area of the city of Galati, but we lost it from radar south of Galati," ministry spokesman Colonel Cristian Popovici told Antena 3 CNN.

The roof of the apartment block was visibly charred, video footage showed, while response teams and investigators inspected the site of impact Friday morning.

Galati sits on the border of Ukraine in Romania's far southeast. Just across the border lies Izmail, ⁠home to the largest Ukrainian port on ‌the river Danube and a frequent target of Russian attacks.

Around the same time as the drone crashed into the apartment in Galati, Ukrainian authorities said the Izmail port area had come under Russian drone attack.

Romanian radars detected drones that were in Romanian airspace, according to the ministry statement. Two F-16 aircraft were deployed and the pilots were authorized to engage targets throughout the alert.