The crash of a Russian drone into a Romanian apartment building on Friday laid bare Europe’s lack of preparedness in confronting modern aerial warfare even as fighting rages across the border in Ukraine for a fifth year.
The conflict’s latest spillover into European Union territory, which Romanian officials denounced as a “serious and irresponsible escalation” by Moscow, was among the most serious incidents on civilian life to date. A mother and her 14-year-old child were injured as they slept some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
