NATO members Romania, Latvia report Russian drones breach airspace
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00:00Those waves of kamikaze drones attacking Ukraine as a daily occurrence here, and we see time
00:08and again some of those drones violating NATO airspace, be it in Poland, be it in Latvia,
00:14be it in Romania, and this triggers reactions in the West.
00:20We've seen NATO protesting against this violation of its airspace, but here in Ukraine there
00:26is hope for more reactions, more than just words, when those kamikaze drones cross into
00:34NATO airspace.
00:36Those drones are charged with explosive charges.
00:39They are usually thrown at Ukrainian infrastructure, Ukrainian, also civilian infrastructure, and
00:47they cause extensive damages, not just on the energy grid, but also on civilians.
00:54So there's a cause here for more reaction than just a protest, just a condemnation from
01:00NATO country, and this happens after a quite difficult week here in Ukraine in terms of
01:07such strikes.
01:08Last week we've seen missile and drone strikes at a very large scale, touching pretty much
01:15every big city here in Ukraine.
01:17Kharkiv was touched, the Palace of Sports was destroyed, Poltava is still left reeling
01:22after a missile attack which killed 58 people, injured a further 300, including 200 which
01:31are still at the hospital.
01:33There's an entire family that has been killed in Lviv, and that's just a result of such
01:37strikes on Ukrainian territory at a time when the situation on the front line is, according
01:45to Kiev, a little bit stabilized.
01:47The Ukrainian forces have regained some territory around the city of New York in the eastern
01:55region of Donbas.
01:57This is near Toresk, which is of strategic importance for Ukraine, and Ukraine maintains
02:03its presence in the Russian region, of course, a month after the beginning of its incursion
02:10there.