Video George Simion, reaction to Russian drones that violated Poland's airspace: “We are under NATO's security protection”
George Simion, president of Gold. Photo: Inquam Photos / George Călin
Gold leader George Simion reacted on Wednesday evening to the Russian incursion into the air space of Poland last night. In a video message posted on Facebook, Simion expressed solidarity with Warsaw and criticized the Strategy for arming the European Union.
“I express my solidarity with the Polish people and the President of Poland Karol Nawrocki in this complicated situation of the Russian drone attack of the sovereign, inalienable territory, which is a NATO member. Dear Romanian, we are under NATO's security protection, we are strategic partners with the United States and we are partners with the President Trump and the President President Donald Trump, ”said President Aur.
“The illusory arming and escalating the conflict in Ukraine, on an indefinite period, will only lead to several attacks. Romanians and others are tired of war. At the same time, it must be discouraged in any form the future aggression of the Russian Federation,” continued George Simion.
Simion has condemned the attack and asked for Romania's reaction to be a call to peace
“What they did in Ukraine, what they did yesterday, on the sovereign territory of Poland, should not be tolerated. This is why Romania must, through its decision makers and by all political formations and by a message from the Romanian people to urge peace and unity. We have been intentionally divided in recent years. Poland, the United States and most European citizens who no longer support new forms of belligence and dictatorship.
Poland lowered, for the first time, Russian drones that violated NATO's country's aerial space
Poland broke down Drone on Wednesday in its airspace with the support of NATO's military aircraft, being the first time that a member of the North Atlantic Alliance has fired during the war triggered by Russia in Ukraine.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk denounced the “large-scale challenge”, saying that Poland identified 19 violations of his air space and broke at least three drones.
Tusk has announced that it has invoked Article 4 of NATO, under which a member may request urgent discussions when he believes that “territorial integrity, political independence or security” is in danger – this being the eighth time when the measure was used.
The Russian Ministry of Defense transmitted on Wednesday, in an official statement that its drones have made a major attack on western Ukraine's military facilities, but that he did not intend to hit any goals in Poland, informs Reuters, The Guardian and Sky News.
The ministry led by Andrei Belousov said that his forces had reached all their targets and stressed that the Russian drones “which would have crossed the border with Poland” had a ray of no more than 700 kilometers (434 miles).
“There was no intention to attack any target on the territory of Poland,” said the Russian Ministry of Defense of Russia, in the statement issued in English, without confirming or infirm that its drones have actually entered the Polish airspace.
