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Russia has closed the Romanian Consulate General in St. PetersburgYuliia KuzmenkoNews editor at LIGA. netRomanian Ambassador to Russia Cristian Istrate (Photo: Istrate’s X page)Today, June 25, Russia announced. . .
Russia has closed the Romanian Consulate General in St. PetersburgYuliia KuzmenkoNews editor at LIGA. netRomanian Ambassador to Russia Cristian Istrate (Photo: Istrate’s X page)Today, June 25, Russia announced the closure of the Romanian consulate in St. Petersburg. This was reported in a press release from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Why this is important. PreviouslyRomania,AustriaandGermanyexpelled Russian diplomats over alleged violations. Russia has long been expanding itssabotage and propaganda activitiesin Europe. This poses a military, political, economic, and social threat to these countries. One of the Russian Federation’s goals is to undermine support for Ukraine. Romanian Ambassador Cristian Istrate was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. There, Russian officials handed him a note from the ministry declaring the Romanian Consul General in St. Petersburg persona non grata. The Bucharest Consulate in St. Petersburg will be closed. According to Russian government officials, this decision is a response to the “unjustified” revocation of permission for the Russian Consulate General to operate in the Romanian city of Constanța. What led up to it. On May 29, the Russian consul in Constanța was also declared persona non grata, and it was decided to close the Russian diplomatic mission. The President of Romania announced this decisionDan Nikushorannouncedafter a drone of Russian origincrashed into a residential buildingin Galați and wounded two Romanian civilians. During the Russian Federation’s attack on the Odesa region on the night of May 29, one of the dronesfell onto the roofan apartment building in Galați, Romania. Two people sustained minor injuries. NATO condemned the attack, while the Romanian Foreign Ministrydescribed the incident“a serious and irresponsible escalation on the part of the Russian Federation” and summoned the ambassador. Following a technical investigationit has been reported…that it was a Russian “Geran-2” drone. PresidentZelenskyreferred to the drone incident in Romaniaan attempt by the Kremlin to exert pressureagainst its allies—and as a signal that, in other words, there’s no need to help Ukraine. Tags:romaniastiriконсульствоКристиан Истратеперсона нон гратапосольствороссияРумыниярф