During a gathering with students in Lviv, Wales Deserved, Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK and Former Commander-in-chief of the Armed ForcesHe revealed that at any point he was asked to non-disclosure of information on Russian drones falling in Romania.
In his speech, He besides criticised Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which declares that An attack on 1 associate is considered an attack on the full Alliance. In his opinion, this provision does not always work effectively in practice.
— The Baltic countries realize that there is no real Article 5 and that it was never there. This is understood by Poland, on which our or Russian rockets occasionally fall. Romania understands it too, it just keeps quiet. Sometimes they call me and say, “Be quiet,” the Deserve betrayed me.
He besides recalled the case erstwhile Romanian military personnel expressed concern about the impact of Ukrainian electronic combat systems (EW). According to the Decent Romanian officers called him and asked why EW systems were activatedAs a result, Russian drones lost their orientation, changed course and flew towards Romania.
— They called me from Romania and asked me not to tell you that the shahids fell there. Then they called again and said: “Why did you turn on your EW systems? The drones were coming to us.” I replied: “Then shoot them down. You have 40 F-16” “The Deserve said.
Romania has repeatedly found remains of Russian Shahid drones after massive attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure — especially port facilities. The majority of drone fragments were discovered along the Romanian bank of the Danube, close the border with Ukraine.
