Politico
Romania’s president on Tuesday dismissed threats by Vladimir Putin that Romania could be targeted by Russian rockets because it hosts elements of a U.S. missile defense shield.
Moscow “cannot intimidate us,” Klaus Iohannis said during a security conference at the presidential palace in Bucharest.
Putin last week warned Romania and Poland that it would have to take retaliatory steps against Washington and its allies over the missile shield, the Romanian part of which was switched on earlier in May.
Iohannis on Tuesday repeated the message from the U.S: the newly-activated missile defense system is not directed at Russia.
“These threats without any real basis can only reconfirm that our approach to strengthen NATO security as a legitimate reaction to Russia’s attitude in the Black Sea is correct,” Iohannis said.
