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Not the first time drones have crashed in Romania, but intention is difficult to verifypublished at 08:36 BST
Vitaly Shevchenko
Chief analyst, BBC Monitoring
There have been numerous incidents of drones crashing in countries across the region throughout the Russia-Ukraine war.
Generally, these have been described as accidents, although it is difficult to verify the intention behind each of these events.
In recent months, some of the drones used by Ukraine against targets in Russia have crashed in all three of the Baltic states; Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
In mid-May, the Latvian government collapsed amid a row over its handling of several such incidents.
Ten days ago, the foreign ministry in Kyiv apologised after a Ukrainian drone was shot down over Estonia.
The ministry’s spokesman, Heorhy Tykhy, accused Russia of deliberately redirecting Ukrainian drones into the Baltics.
After a major Russian air attack on Ukraine on 25 April, fragments of two drones were recovered from Galati, the same eastern Romanian region which borders Ukraine, where a Russian drone hit an apartment building earlier today.
Back in April, Moscow did not confirm or deny that the two drones were Russian.
After being summoned to the Romanian foreign ministry, Russian ambassador Vladimir Lipaev said the incident was “quite possibly a Ukrainian provocation” involving a Ukrainian drone, or a drone diverted by Ukraine.
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