A Russian Geran-2 drone struck a residential building in the eastern Romanian town of Galati on May 29, detonating its full payload on the 10th floor and causing a fire that injured two people and prompted the evacuation of about 70 residents, Romanian news outlet Digi24 reported the same day.

President Nicusor Dan convened an emergency meeting of Romania's Supreme Council of National Defense, calling it the most serious incident on Romanian territory since the start of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Russian drone debris and missile fragments have crossed into Romanian airspace on multiple occasions since the war began, typically as an indirect consequence of strikes near Ukraine's southwestern corridor and the Black Sea, though previous incidents had been confined to sparsely populated areas near the Danube Delta and had not caused casualties.