European Parliament member Diana Sosoaca said Bucharest would use the recent drone incident to justify increased defense spending<\/p>\n
The leaders of the EU and NATO are using the recent drone incident in Romania to push the country closer to war with Russia, Diana Sosoaca, a Romanian member of the European Parliament and former senator, has told RT.
\nRomania blamed Russia after a drone crashed into an apartment block in the city of Galati near the Ukrainian border on Friday, injuring two people.
\nRussian President Vladimir Putin called on Romania to share data about the incident for an \u201cobjective investigation,\u201d while Russia\u2019s ambassador to Bucharest, Vladimir Lipaev, told RT that there is no proof the drone came from Russia.
\n\u201cWe ask for an international investigation,\u201d Sosoaca, the leader of the opposition SOS Romania party, said. \u201cThere are only assumptions\u201d fueled by anti-Russian fearmongering, she added.
\nSosoaca went on to say that the EU and NATO are seeking to \u201cpush Romania to attack Russia,\u201d while critics of escalation are being labeled as spies for Moscow.<\/p>\n
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Sosoaca added that the Romanian government will use the incident as a pretext for increased defense spending. She pointed to Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, who vowed on Friday to accelerate efforts to acquire anti-drone equipment through the EU\u2019s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program.
\nThese measures are unpopular with ordinary Romanians, who \u201cdon\u2019t want to be at war with Russia,\u201d Sosoaca said.
\nPutin said during a trip to Kazakhstan on Friday that Russia has no intention of attacking NATO but would \u201craze to the ground\u201d any country that attacks it. The president also criticized Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys, who recently suggested that the US-led bloc should be prepared to \u201cbreak into\u201d Kaliningrad Region, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea.
\nSeveral suspected Ukrainian drones have crashed in the Baltic states in recent months, prompting Moscow to warn NATO members against allowing Ukraine to use their territory to launch strikes against Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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