Ministrul apararii Mihai Fifor a declarat pentru Associated Press ca Romania este zilnic provocata de Rusia in spatiul aerian si maritim si sunt lansate atacuri cibernetice asupra tarii noastre (si implicit a spatiului NATO) din aceeasi sursa.


Romania Minister Says Country Facing Cyber-Attacks, Russians

 

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/25/world/europe/ap-eu-romania-defense-minister-interview.html

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania faces Russian aggression on a daily basis in the Black Sea, and is fending off a wave of cyber-attacks and political interference, the defense minister said Monday.

But even amid such uncertainty, Mihai Fifor told The Associated Press that the country of 19 million aims to be the region’s main security provider and early warning outpost for threats to fellow NATO allies.

I don’t think there’s a single day without a challenge” from Russia in Romania’s airspace or territorial waters, he said, but the government is working “to discourage as much as possible, as efficiently as it can.”

The former Soviet-satellite state hosts a major U.S. military base, and has consistently taken more pro-American stances than its neighbors, leading to cool relations with Russia, which Fifor said had become “practically a neighbor” since it annexed Crimea in 2014.

“Russia is increasing its military capacity on the Crimean peninsula practically every day; we are talking about new naval capacities, new frigates, new submarines,” he said, adding that Romania plans to increase defense spending to 2 percent of GDP this year from 1.81 percent, and “demonstrate that it is a pillar of stability and security.”

The move would allow Romania to add to the 700 soldiers it sends to the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan that provides training, advice and assistance to local security forces. Fifor proposed increasing the number to 900, pending approval from the country’s top defense body and Parliament.

Some 8,000 personnel retired or left the armed forces last year, while the government approved 6,400 new jobs in the army to be filled by the end of 2018, he said. NATO members agreed in 2014 to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense within a decade.

Fifor, 48, who was previously economy minister, said Romania was facing “interference in the political zone, interference with minorities… and economic war,” that included opposition to the building of a pipeline that will lessen dependence on Russian gas.

The pipeline, from Bulgaria to Austria via Romania and Hungary, could enable Romania to become a major gas exporter by connecting its offshore reserves in the Black Sea.

 

6 COMMENTS

  1. Trebuie făcută precizarea că este vorba de spaţiul maritim şi aerian internaţional unde poate să circule liber oricine. Nici un avion sau navă de luptă rusă nu a intrat în spaţiu de siguranţă şi nici în apele teritoriale române sau NATO, deoarece n-au nevoie, ei văd totul şi scanează prin alte mijloace-dar ce văd la noi sunt nimicuri care pot dispărea în primele minute de dezastru.

  2. Atata timp cat o tara are stabilitate ZERO, apar vulnerabilitatile in cascada. Ce coincidenta! O fi si romanica in aceasta categorie?!

  3. fifor , baietelul lui dragnea, care le plateste americanilor foarte multi bani din buget sa il apere pe dragnea si sa il pregateasca pentru cotroceni, vorbeste de rusii din psd alde poate. putin si erdogan sunt modele pentru tariceanu si dragnea.

  4. Bine ca (măcar) armata face ce are de făcut: apăra tzara, și alte tzari into the bargain (la pachet) de dușmanii clasici (sau istorici, cum preferam sa-i numim pe vecinii de la Răsărit). De Altfel, fiecare apara, e o apărare generală de zici ca-i asediu: SRI apara pe toată lumea (de bunul simt, mai ales) SPP apara biciclete (apreședintelui, in orice caz) SIE se apara pe sine (nu primește șef civil), parchetele apara protocoalele (de “șobolani”) și “opoziția” apara Strada (de parlament). Swift mai lipsește sa ne trateze pe toți de Yahoo (caii fantastici cu care s-a întâlnit Gulliver, nu unealta de cercetare pe net) și sa scrie o cronica pe măsura evenimentelor de pe terasa azilului de nebuni pe care l-a fondat la sfârșitul vieții sale (sau din grădina- terasa a grupului 22, pentru actualizare). Bine ca generalii adevărați stau pe fronturile adevărate și nu se bagă in chelfăneală generalilor de mucava tip Johannis, altfel am crede ca iar au dat turcii!

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