Cyber-attacks, espionage activities and fake news phenomena have intensified in Romania, in the current regional context - said the director of the Romanian Intelligence Service - SRI, Eduard Hellvig. Heard in the standing joint committee of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies and the Senate in charge of exercising parliamentary control over SRI's work, Hellvig presented a security analysis from the perspective of SRI's legal responsibilities and in the context of the tense situation in neighboring Ukraine. According to a SRI statement, director Hellvig called for the updating of the national security law package, all the more so as the regional security environment is constantly changing.
Also in Bucharest, the defense minister Vasile Dîncu said that, in case of an armed conflict, Romania is ready to receive over 500 thousand refugees from Ukraine. "There is a plan in this regard that is being prepared in all major cities, there are areas dedicated to this