Oct 20, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Romania
will have a new, modern anti-drone defense system installed on its territory as
soon as possible, government sources informed on Friday.
According to them, our country will receive this system for use based on a “G to G” agreement concluded with a partner state, with the agreement of NATO.
The need to
install an anti-drone system in Romania occurred as a result of Russian drone
attacks on the Danube ports in Ukraine, as a result of which remnants of this
military equipment also fell in areas of our country.
In a
message sent on Friday to the participants of Bucharest Security Conference,
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said that Russia’s attacks on the
Ukrainian ports on the Danube “are not accidental”, in the context in which
more than half of the grain export from the neighboring country transits
Romania by sea.
“Russian
attacks in the vicinity of our territory alarmingly increase the risks of
incidents and aggravation. It is clear that Russia will continue to pressure
commercial ships and impose no-traffic zones in the Black Sea. The attacks on
the Danube border are not accidental, because Russia knows that more than half
of Ukrainian grain for export is currently transported through Romanian
shipping lanes. It is important to reflect on how NATO will prepare for the
scenario in which Russia’s (attacks – n.r.) escalate in Romania, in the Black
Sea and Danube region. For the time being, the strengthening of the Allied
presence advanced on the Eastern Flank, following the summits in Madrid and Vilnius
and especially the most recent additions, is welcome. This is the correct
defense position, bearing in mind that Russian provocations do not lacks
neither imagination nor versatility”, reads the PM’s message presented at
the meeting by Nicolae Comănescu, state adviser for foreign policy and
strategic affairs in the Prime Minister’s Chancellery.
According
to the prime minister, currently, the Euro-Atlantic allies are facing tensions
in the Middle East, where the “terror campaign <>” against Israel is “auspicious
in Moscow”.
“Instead of
focusing exclusively on Russian threats, sanctions and support for Ukraine, the
Euro-Atlantic allies are facing tensions in the Middle East, which have a
threatening potential to spill over into Europe. There are already terrorist
attacks in Europe, and the secret services increase the level of vigilance to
the maximum. Also, there is the specter of another wave of refugees from the
Middle East to Europe, with all the known negative impact on the internal
politics of European states,” Marcel Ciolacu said.
“There is a
fake news campaign regarding the war in Gaza, which finds its echo in Russia’s
aggressive disinformation campaign that took place in Europe, at the beginning
of the military aggression in Ukraine”, added the prime minister.
Romania Journal
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