ROMANIA PERSPECTIVE

Bucharest plays the diplomatic restraint typical of a country sharing 614 km of border with Ukraine. Digi24 headlines the Latinized formulation of the letter — "Enough with the war — let us meet to end it" — and emphasizes the human and Christian dimension of the message. The Romanian coverage then reports Trump's reaction ("I think that would be great") with a dose of polite irony at the presidential claim of "credit". The domestic Romanian context is heavy: Russian drone over Galați the week before, political instability with the appointment of Eugen Tomac as PM, parliamentary debates over expanding the defense budget. The Romanian press therefore adopts a restrained tone: it reports the diplomatic sequence without enthusiasm, notes that the border is now a permanent friction zone, and recalls that any ceasefire signed without including the frontline partners is, for Bucharest, a promise that does not bind. The tone is less alarmist than Warsaw's — Romania counts on NATO guarantees more than on bilateral negotiations — but the implicit warning is plain: a peace cobbled together between Trump, Putin and Zelensky will be received in Bucharest as one more bad signal. For Bucharest, the ideal scenario would be a ceasefire validated by NATO, not by an ad hoc Trump-Putin-Zelensky format that would leave the river countries outside the room.