The Minister of Defense made a very important last-minute announcement for millions of Romanians throughout the country, one that a lot of people need to know about, and this because it brings to our attention new information about the evolution of the war in Ukraine, information that is not we should ignore them now.
The Minister of Defense speaks below about how Romania is prepared to face the war in Ukraine, but also about the possibility that Vladimir Putin will launch a nuclear missile to attack Ukraine, one of the biggest fears that exists regarding the evolution of the war so far, a very serious one.
"Romania is not afraid of an attack, on the contrary, any serious state being in the geographical area where we are, and being in an area of proximity to a conflict, lest we forget, the context is the invasion by Russia to Putin of a sovereign state, violating international law, an unprovoked, deeply illegal invasion that automatically generates reactions.
I think that any state must be prepared for such a situation, and the military field is a field that operates with variants. I am sure that at the level of military decision-makers, of those who elaborate the way in which a state, or another, positions itself in relation to a situation, or another, there are options discussed, and which are also the subject of the concerns they usually have .
I cannot say what the order of magnitude will be (n. ed. asked about the increase in the number of NATO soldiers in Romania), it will be proportional to the situation. Anyway, NATO makes sure, and we make sure, that we have the necessary troops to meet the security and safety requirements of our state.
Romania is prepared to ensure the manner in which the NATO soldiers will spend the period that we will establish together here. We have the possibility to provide them with training, we have the possibility to provide them with exercises, we have the possibility to make them act with full efficiency, if necessary. The Prime Minister, who has an absolutely reasonable and respectable military experience, expressed what I can also say, there are no elements that make us believe that the situation in Poland could be repeated in Romania.
One of the predictable elements that can be associated with Vladimir Putin is unpredictability, so I don't know if there is a probability (ed. use of nuclear weapons by Putin in Ukraine), from a theoretical point of view the possibilities are not excluded, they were also evoked by experts in military analysis, and by high-ranking officials. I would like to believe that this will not happen."
