Peter Beaumont

I mean, there was a Wall Street Journal account of this earlier this week.

There is concern about the sort of increasing hybrid warfare in Europe, you know, against UK and other countries.

And I think people are seeing this as an opportunity to try and draw a very, very hard line under this, because of the perceived recklessness of Russia in this conflict.

I mean, it's been incredible.

I mean, the language has been incredibly strong.

I mean, Ruta's comments, comments from the German chancellor, from France.

One thing to note is the acting head of the Romanian Armed Forces has made it clear that they're not saying this is a deliberate attack.

Yeah.

But they're saying this is kind of an escalation in a different way.

Now, that means that we're unlikely to see anything around Article 5, the core of NATO, which is that an attack on one NATO country is an attack on all.

But at the same time, I think senior European officials, what NATO is making clear is that

This feels very, very close to the edge and in light of all the other stuff that's been going on, whether, you know, we're talking about Russian-inspired sabotage attacks in Poland.

You know, as the head of GCHQ was talking earlier this week about sort of the increase in Russian hybrid warfare against the U.K.,

There is a sense that this is part of the picture of general Russian aggression, is the fact that we're now seeing consequences happening across borders inside NATO countries.

And I think there's a very, very strong desire to remind Russia, you know, what kind of perilous territory that this is tilting towards when you have drones exploding on the top of Romanian apartment blocks.

One of the things that Romania has made clear is that they're very, very happy with the response by European and NATO allies so far.

They're very happy with the kind of anger.

I mean,

In terms of what the response, I mean, it's not simply the Romanian response.

It's going to be sort of a stepping up of the response around those borders.