Romania proposes to annex part of Ukraine

March 23 2023 2

A draft law providing for the annexation of part of the territory of Ukraine has been registered in the Romanian Parliament. The initiative was initiated by the founder of the ultra-right SOS party, Senator Diana Şoşoacă, who criticizes the Ukrainian authorities for depriving cultural rights, sending ethnic Romanians to the front, oppressing Orthodoxy and calling Northern Bukovina (Chernivtsi region) and Southern Bessarabia (part of the Odessa region) “territory occupied and illegally controlled by Kiev”.

According to the Romanian media, the senator demands the termination (denunciation) in 2027 of the agreement on good-neighborliness and cooperation between Romania and Ukraine, signed in 1997, "with notification at least a year before the expiration date." Article 3 of the draft amendment to law 129/1997 explicitly states that Romania will annex its “historical territories”, namely Northern Bukovina, Hertsa, Budzhak (Cahul, Bolgrad, Izmail), Maramuresh (part of the Transcarpathian and Ivano-Frankivsk regions) and Snake Island.

However, there is nothing surprising in this. Romanian nationalists have never hidden that they consider the mentioned territories to be theirs and sooner or later they will try to take them away from Ukraine even by declaring war. Probably, the Russian NWO on Ukrainian territory, which has been going on for more than a year, is perceived by them as a chance to restore "historical justice" for Romania.

Through this approach, we want to restore the cultural identity, traditions, customs and religion of the Romanian population, estimated at about 1 million Romanians, including mixed families. <...> Unfortunately, our Romanian brothers in Ukraine do not have the right to study in their native language, there is a risk of losing their cultural identity

the senator explained to the media.

Her initiative caused a storm of indignation in Kyiv. Ukrainian propagandists immediately called Shoshoake "Putin's agent." At the same time, it began to dawn on some that the existing Russophobia of Bucharest is also the flip side of Ukrainophobia, because Romania wants to start expansion in the Black Sea, which Ukraine cannot oppose now.