00:00someone told me just before I entered here a drone entered the Romanian airspace
00:05no I don't know what drone so please tell me what's the information in the
00:10media now a drone hit residential building in Romania and they say it's a
00:17Russian drone who says that it's a Russian drone many people many people
00:22means no one precisely who names Ursula von der Leyen well she didn't go to
00:33Romania she didn't investigate she didn't look at the remnants of the drone no one
00:39can say where a flying vehicle came from before they run a forensic analysis
00:49because some drones Ukrainian drones enter Finnish airspace Polish airspace the
00:55Baltic countries airspace Ukrainian drones do that and the first reaction was
01:00exactly the same like they have now in Romania Russians are hitting us they were
01:07saying and then they found out that these drones had nothing to do with Russia Russia
01:16had nothing to do with these drones they came from Ukraine a state visit we are
01:21happy with this visit because we well we drew a line because we discussed what was
01:31accomplished we have a record high trade turnover and we have good growth trends so
01:40we discussed the priorities in our cooperation in all the priority areas and we discussed
01:47all the areas of our cooperation and leading role here is with the humanitarian cooperation
02:01because maintaining good neighborly relations basically familiar relations between our states
02:08between our nationals is of utmost importance because it creates
02:16the long-term important level of trust between the two states
02:25Romania's president Nikis Ordan has made Moscow's position crystal clear he says Russia is fully
02:33responsible for the overnight drone crash no ambiguity no room for Moscow to maneuver
02:40full responsibility and then he went further Romania is now expelling the Russian consul from the
02:48southeastern city of Constanta the consulate is being shut down the Russian diplomat has been declared persona
02:56non grata that is a significant diplomatic escalation that is a country that has just
03:02been hit hitting back through every channel available to it short of a missile but it does not stop there
03:09Romania is now signaling it could invoke article 4 of the NATO charter for those who do not know what
03:17that means article 4 is the consultation clause it is what a NATO member triggers when it believes its
03:24territorial integrity or security is under threat it is the step before article 5 the step before collective
03:32defense kicks in Romania is saying we are close to that line and NATO heard it the alliance responded
03:41saying it is ready to defend every inch of Romanian territory against Russia not some of it every inch the
03:50United States echoed that almost word for word US ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker condemned what he called
03:58Russia's reckless incursion on Romanian territory he said Washington stands firmly with Romania and then he said the line that
04:07will be heard in Moscow tonight we will defend every inch of NATO territory now this is significant for
04:15one very specific reason this is the Trump administration saying it the same administration that has often been
04:23accused of being soft on Russia the same administration that took a different posture to Biden on Ukraine and yet
04:31here
04:31they are unambiguous standing with a NATO ally against a Russian drone that tells you how serious this incident
04:40is being treated at the highest levels now Russia of course has its own version Kremlin spokesperson Maria
04:48Zakharova says the entire episode is being hyped by Western nations to distract from what happened in
04:54Starobilsk last week where Russian officials claim Ukraine struck a student dormitory with drone attacks killing 21
05:02students Ukraine denies targeting civilians Putin himself has been briefed he is quote aware of the incident and
05:12the Russian foreign ministry says it will respond to Romania's decision to expel the consul so here is where we
05:19stand
05:20tonight a Russian drone has hit a NATO member state Romania is expelling Russia's consul NATO is invoking
05:28defensive language the US is backing every inch of the alliance and Moscow is framing all of it as a
05:35distraction two nuclear armed sides one incident and a charter clause that is one step away from
05:43collective war article four is on the table article five is right behind it and somewhere in Galati
05:50there's a building with a Russian drone shaped hole in it that just changed the temperature of this entire war
06:13that just changed the temperature of this entire war is right behind it and that just changed the temperature of
06:21this entire war is right
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