{"id":6885,"date":"2025-09-23T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:00:37","slug":"romania-expresses-solidarity-with-estonia-at-un-security-council-meeting-after-russian-airspace-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6885","title":{"rendered":"Romania expresses solidarity with Estonia at UN Security Council meeting after Russian airspace incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romanian foreign minister Oana \u021aoiu<\/strong> expressed solidarity with Estonia during the September 22 emergency meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council after the latter’s airspace was violated by three Russian fighter jets last week.<\/p>\n

On Friday, September 19, Russian jets entered and stayed in the airspace above the Gulf of Finland for 12 minutes, disregarding communication from two Italian pilots in F-35 fighter jets, which had taken off from NATO\u2019s Baltic Air Policing Mission in \u00c4mari Air Base in Estonia. The jets eventually left for international airspace, and Russia later denied entering Estonian airspace at all.<\/p>\n

After the incursion, Estonia requested NATO Article 4 consultations, which require that the alliance discuss the event. It was\u00a0the second NATO member to have requested consultations in recent days, following Poland\u2019s request last week, which came after several Russian drones entered its airspace.<\/p>\n

\u201cRomania is fully in solidarity with Estonia, a country whose airspace was recently violated by three Russian fighter jets,\u201d said \u021aoiu on Monday, September 22, in a message posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The message follows the minister’s presentation of Romania\u2019s security interests at the United Nations Security Council emergency meeting on the same day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI strongly condemned the Russian reckless violations of European airspace – this time Estonia, last week Romania, before that Poland. Such provocations undermine international peace and security and blatantly ignore state sovereignty and international law,\u201d the official noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u021aoiu added that the emergency meeting shows that the region and the international community firmly reject Russia\u2019s war of aggression. She reiterated that Romania is fully in solidarity with Estonia and with allies and partners when it comes to “defending sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the principles of the UN Charter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The minister also reiterated Romania\u2019s support for establishing peace in the region.<\/p>\n

Other European officials also gave firm messages against Russian incursions into NATO airspace at the UN meeting. They warned they would shoot down Russian jets or drones involved in any further violations.<\/p>\n

The new US ambassador to the UN, Michael Waltz, told the Security Council that the United States and its allies \u201cwill defend every inch of NATO territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing the Russian delegation directly, Polish deputy prime minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski said that Russia is incapable of living in peace with its neighbors.\u00a0\u201cIf another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission – deliberately or \u2018by mistake\u2019 – and gets shot down, and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don\u2019t come here to whine about it. You have been warned,\u201d Sikorski said, cited by CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In reply, Russia\u2019s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, doubled down and claimed the aircraft remained in international airspace. He accused Europe of \u201cspreading blatant lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to that claim, however, Estonian representatives presented the council with maps and radar recordings showing the jets crossing into Estonia\u2019s airspace. They also presented photographs of the Russian jets, pointing to the fact that they were armed with missiles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: Oana Toiu on Facebook)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romanian foreign minister Oana \u021aoiu expressed solidarity with Estonia during the September 22 emergency meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council after the latter’s airspace was violated by three Russian fighter jets last week. On Friday, September 19, Russian jets entered and stayed in the airspace above the Gulf of Finland for 12 minutes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}