Russia kills civilians every day, Romanian Foreign Ministry spokesperson says

11 August 2026 The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Bogdan Ţărnea, stated on Monday, August 10, that Russian officials should not comment on the national identity of a country while their own country is waging “a brutal war of conquest.” The statements came in reaction to comments made by Yuri Pilipson, director of the Second European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The Russian official stated in a recent interview with the Russian state-owned news agency TASS that Romania was providing direct military aid to Ukraine through the Moldovan port of Giurgiuleşti, which it bought this year. “Romania is already involved in providing direct military and logistical support to the regime in Kyiv,” said Pilipson. According to him, the port of Giurgiulești, whose op