Could Nato be dragged into war with Russia? – The Latest
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | Deliberately or not, the war is bleeding over the borders into NATO and to other parts of Europe. |
| 0:17.0 | This is a spine-stiffening exercise. The air war has got ever more intense. There's a very, |
| 0:22.5 | very strong desire to remind Russia what kind of perilous territory that this is tilting towards. |
| 0:28.4 | NATO says it's ready to defend every inch of its territory as a Russian drone hits an apartment |
| 0:34.0 | building in Romania. From The Guardian's today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff. |
| 0:41.6 | Peter Beaumont, our senior international correspondent. |
| 0:44.7 | Peter, we're talking in light of an attack by a Russian drone on Romanian territory on an apartment block that feels like quite a major escalation. What happened |
| 0:56.0 | when this drone entered Romanian territory? What seems to have happened is that last night |
| 1:01.0 | there was another fairly major Russian attack on Ukraine and during this attack, one of the Russian |
| 1:06.2 | drones crossed into Romania and hit the roof of an apartment block in a city called Galati, |
| 1:13.6 | which is quite close to the Ukrainian border. |
| 1:16.1 | I mean, it's not far from the Danube. |
| 1:17.9 | And in the course of this impact, the drones, explosives, detonated, two people have been injured, |
| 1:25.0 | and all the residents of the apartment block have been evacuated. |
| 1:29.1 | And it seems as though the Romanians were actually tracking this drone as it crossed in, |
| 1:34.0 | but they were anxious that if they tried to shoot it down, you know, it might actually cause |
| 1:38.2 | as many problems as simply allowing it to crash. |
| 1:40.7 | But nonetheless, it sounds like there was a huge response given that this is residential area, to clear that area to prevent any casualties, which mercifully, they weren't. |
| 1:49.0 | Oh, massive. Yeah, but too injured, as you say. Yes, that have been absolutely massive response. |
| 1:54.1 | I mean, you know, this isn't the first time it's happened. I mean, one of the problems, as the |
| 1:58.7 | ground war in Ukraine has become bogged down, as the air war has got ever more intense, and both sides, the drones that have been used and attacks have gone astray. |
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