May. 29 at 8:32 PM
Day 1,556 of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine
The UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine had verified 310 cases of conflict-related sexual violence perpetrated by Russian armed & security forces
It said the cases, including rape, gang rape, genital mutilation, electric shocks & beatings to the genitals, injured 280 men, 26 women & 4 girls
Russian drone struck an apartment building in the border town of Galați, Romania, injuring 2 civilians & setting the building on fire. About 70 people were evacuated as the fire was put out. The drone breached NATO airspace while Russia was carrying out an overnight attack on Ukrainian infrastructure along the Danube River.
The drone was likely hit while over Ukraine, apparently by Ukraine's air defences which altered its trajectory
Romania President Dan to expel the Russian consul in the Black Sea port of Constanța & shut down the consulate
Romania's defence ministry says that since the start of the war in Ukraine, drone fragments have been found on Romanian territory on 47 separate occasions, 12 of them this year alone.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on X: "Russia's war of aggression has crossed yet another line"
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the drone hit was a "serious violation" of Nato airspace, and added that the UK stood "shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine, with Romania, and with all our Nato allies in the face of continued Russian aggression"
Other European politicians also condemned the incident, including the French foreign minister, the US Ambassador to Nato and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
Nato's secretary general said the Galati incident "showed yet again that the implications of [Russia's] illegal war of aggression don't stop at the border"
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of the Security Council of Russia & the country’s former president, cautioned the EU to be “vigilant” amid the “war with Russia” that Europe has entered
“Citizens of EU countries, You should realize your authorities have unilaterally entered into a war with Russia. So be vigilant & don’t be surprised by anything. The peaceful sleep is over. But you know who to ask why.”
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