ROMANIA PERSPECTIVE

Bucharest carries the Ukrainian strike with particular intensity, because Romania became a direct actor in the conflict on May 30. A Russian drone penetrated Romanian airspace and struck a building in Galati. Digi24 and G4Media bridge the two events on June 2: the massive attack on Kyiv and the Galati incident belong to the same sequence. Oana Toiu, Romania's foreign minister, delivered a speech Monday night at the UN Security Council session on Galati. She declared that violation of Romanian airspace has become 'a repeated phenomenon' and represents a direct consequence of Russian escalation tactics in Ukraine. Fifty-six countries condemned Moscow's behavior — a rare and significant international backing. Mediafax and G4Media reproduce the full statement. The Romanian specificity in covering the Kyiv strike is this dual reading: it is not just an attack on a neighbor, it is the sibling event of what Romania endured 48 hours earlier. Romanian outlets speak less about Kyiv casualties — they know the contours — and more about European engagement and the need for a collective response. Romania, alongside Poland, becomes one of the two eastern-flank countries demanding a structural NATO reaction. Without explicitly invoking 'NATO Article 4' as Warsaw does, Bucharest builds the case methodically: UN statement, coalition of 56 countries, systematic parallel between incidents. Diplomacy here is a form of state journalism.