- Europe will no longer sleep peacefully: Medvedev.
- He says that the EU is directly involved in the war against Russia.
- Putin reported on drone incident in Romania: Kremlin.
Dmitry Medvedev, vice president of Russia’s powerful Security Council, warned European leaders on Friday that drones would continue to enter their countries and prevent their populations from sleeping peacefully.
Medvedev spoke after NATO accused Moscow of reckless behavior and pledged to “defend every inch of allied territory” after Romania said a Russian drone had crashed into an apartment block in the alliance member state during an attack on neighboring Ukraine.
Medvedev said it was still necessary to determine which country the drone belonged to, but said European leaders should stop expressing outrage over the incident as they were directly participating in a war against Russia.
“Be prepared: this will continue to happen,” Medvedev said in a statement. “There is a war! And the citizens of the EU states, as the population of the belligerent countries, will not be able to sleep peacefully.”
He said such incidents were particularly likely to continue in places where drones were being manufactured for Ukraine.
“After all, European drones, their spare parts and other weapons, not to mention intelligence services, are used every day in attacks on our country. As a result of their actions, residential buildings are damaged, in which our civilians die,” Medvedev said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had been informed about the drone incident in Romania, the tass the state news agency reported earlier on Friday, and the Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow would quickly respond to Romania’s retaliatory decision to close the Russian consulate in Constanta.
