Poland’s Undersecretary of State for Trade, Michał Baranowski, told Euronews that the Russian drone incursion into Romania early on Friday morning — following a series of similar incidents across the Baltic region — demonstrates that the European Union is no longer living in peacetime.
“These are not mistakes. These are provocations,” he told Euronews’ Europe Today programme.
“It’s extremely serious. It is difficult to overstate the scale of this escalation.”
The drone was part of an overnight Russian attack on Ukraine and crashed into an apartment building in south-eastern Romania, injuring two people, Romanian authorities said on Friday.
Since the beginning of May, there have been at least six confirmed or suspected drone incursions into the airspace of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland.
