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Cutter Gauthier collected one goal and one assist while Ryan Poehling added a goal for Anaheim, which claimed the Western Conference quarterfinal series 4-2. Goaltender Lukas Dostal made 25 saves as the Ducks recorded their first postseason series victory since 2017.

Reflecting on the series, Terry said, "The first period of the first game, you could see the nerves, but that first game was huge for us. We didn't win, but we proved to ourselves we could play with that team.

"To beat that team is pretty special."

The Ducks' opponent in the Western Conference semifinals will be the winner of the series between the Golden Knights and Utah Mammoth, which Vegas leads 3-2.

Connor Murphy and Vasily Podkolzin tallied for the Oilers, who lost in the Stanley Cup Final in each of the previous two seasons. Goalie Connor Ingram stopped 26 shots.

"Never really found what you need to find this time of year, especially to go all the way," Edmonton star Leon Draisaitl said. "In my opinion, just not good enough. ... They were the better team."

For the first time in the series, Anaheim opened the scoring. Poehling's fourth tally of the playoffs came just before the midway point of the first period. After the line's workmanlike effort to gain possession of the puck in the offensive zone, John Carlson sent a point shot that ricocheted off a defender and then the back of Poehling's leg before going into the net.

Kreider doubled the lead four minutes later with his first of the series, a one-timer off the rush that found the mark on the short side to make his 35th birthday all the better.

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Murphy put the Oilers on the board 91 seconds later with a tap-in tally during a scramble. However, Gauthier restored Anaheim's two-goal edge with his team's eighth power-play goal of the series, benefitting when his shot redirected off a defender's stick and into the net at 16:50 of the opening frame.

Anaheim scored with the man-advantage in all six games.

"We knew coming into it, we like our best game," Terry said. "I thought our special teams were good, our back end played great on their big guys. We just got timely scoring and good goaltending."

Less than one minute after the Oilers had a goal waved off, Terry made it a 4-1 game by burying a shot from the slot with 46.5 seconds remaining in the second period.

Podkolzin's goal 73 seconds into the third period -- a shot was going wide of the net but banked off Podkolzin's leg and into the cage -- provided a spark for a possible Oilers comeback.

However, Carlsson quashed the rally hopes by scoring an empty-net goal with 3:34 to go.

Oilers captain Connor McDavid said, "We've been searching for consistency all year. Obviously we didn't find it in the playoffs.

"We were an average team all year. An average team with high expectations, you're gonna be disappointed. We expected to have a longer run than we did."

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The clip quickly went viral on X, with usersreactingstrongly to what the caption suggested.

But when people actually watched the video, there wasno clear moment, audio, or context confirming any of those claims.

Around the same time, Paul alsospokeout about ongoingrumorsaround his relationship.

A viral clip of Jake Paul accusing Jutta Leerdam of cheating sparked confusion

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The viral video gained attention mainly because of its caption, not the footage itself.

The post claimed that Paul accused Leerdam of cheating and reacted by throwing her engagement ring, reportedly worth $500k, into the water.

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However, the clip itself does not show any such moment. There was no visible proof, no clear dialogue, and nothing that directly confirmed the caption’s claim.

Despite that, the combination of a dramatic narrative and a trending video was enough for the rumour to spread quickly.

Online users quickly began reacting as if the situation had already been confirmed, even though the source of the claim remained unclear.

Rumours about Jake Paul and Jutta Leerdam breakup and cheating came from Dutch reports

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The speculation appears to have started earlier with reports from Dutch media personality Yvonne Coldeweijer, who claimed that Paul had ended his engagement with Leerdam.

“Jutta has been dumped by her fiancé Jake! He is completely done with her!” she wrote.

She also alleged that he had taken back the engagement ring and ended the relationship after dropping her off at home.

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Additional claims suggested cheating, but none of these accusations were backed by any verified evidence.

The rumors gained more attention when fans noticed a brief lack of interaction between the couple on social media.

However, others pointed out that Leerdam was still liking Paul’s posts, which did not align with the breakup claims.

So far, no official confirmation has supported the idea that the couple has split or that any cheating incident took place.

Jake Paul responded to “false information” as online reactions pour in without verified facts

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Paul addressed the situation directly, shutting down the rumors and defending his relationship.

“Seeing the Dutch media lying about my fiancé Jutta and I. There is so much false information being spread about Jutta in the past years. It needs to stop,” he wrote.

His statement made it clear that the claims circulating online were not accurate.

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This also comes shortly after he publicly supported Leerdam during the Winter Olympics, where she won gold.

At the time, he posted, “Juttttttttttaaaaaaaa. I can’t stop crying. You did it my love. Olympic Gold. God is great and so are you.”

Although there’s no proof to this rumour, people still jumped in with their opinions online.

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“Haha, cope, he ain’t getting it better than Jutta,” one user wrote.

“Why do people still give this guy attention?” another added.

“Being betrayed hurts, but reacting in the heat of the moment on live won’t make it better,” one comment read.

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Others focused on the rumored ring. “Must be nice to not worry about $500K. I mean bro could have at least sold it,” one person wrote.

“Jake acting like a victim after years of scamming people is pure comedy,” another added.

“All for publicity”, some commenters expressed on social media

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Ina motion filed Saturday, Cole Tomas Allen's attorneys requested that he be taken off any suicide restrictions, which they characterized as “demeaning,” while he’s awaiting further hearings in the case.

Allen’s attorneys wrote that his “placement on suicide watch and suicide precautions amount to violations of his rights under the Due Process Clause to the U.S. Constitution” because he “has exhibited no indications of suicidality,” the motion filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia states.

Allen was armed with multiple guns, as well as knives, officials have said, when he sprinted through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton hotel, where the event was being held on April 25.

Allen, 31, fell to the ground and was taken into custody, officials have said.

His defense team argued in the motion that Allen has been held under varying levels of suicide watch at different times since his arrest that night.

As of Friday, he was under suicide precautions, which are less restrictive than suicide watch, the motion says, despite a nurse's recommendation that day that the designation be removed.

Allen was at one point held in a "safe cell," which is "a padded room with constant lighting and 24-hour lockdown procedures, including the requirements that the inmate in the room wear a vest akin to a strait jacket, be strip searched upon entry and exit, and not leave the cell except for legal or medical visits,” the filing states in a footnote.

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The restrictions have prevented Allen from communicating with anyone besides his legal team, as well as accessing the commissary or resources such as jail tablets, the filing states. His lawyers wrote that they believe he has also been unable to review case documents they leave for him.

The motion — signed by defense attorneys A.J. Kramer, Tezira Abe and Eugene Ohm — states that while Allen's attorney's do not believe there is "expressed intent to punish" him, "his placement on suicide precautions amounts to punishment."

Kramer did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.

The Justice Department has not responded to the filing, according to court records. A spokesperson for the D.C. Department of Corrections, which operates the facility where Allen is being held, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Allen,a California teacher, is charged withattempting to assassinate the president, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.

A judge this week ordered that heremain held in custodyas the case proceeds. Allen has not entered a plea.

Video theDepartment of Justice released this weekshows a man identified as Allen running through a security checkpoint. It also shows him shooting a Secret Service officer, said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

Allen said in writings that he intended to target members of the Trump administration from highest-ranking to lowest, prosecutors have said.

The scramble to protect the president and whisk away dignitaries — including first lady Melania Trump, multiple members of the president’s cabinet and Congress — took place as the dinner was underway in the hotel ballroom. The event was canceled for the night.

You can thankMeryl Streepfor the most emotional moment of "The Devil Wears Prada 2."

In the long-awaited sequel, fashion's high priestess Miranda Priestly (Streep) successfully saves Runway magazine: She finds an affluent new buyer, Sasha Barnes (Lucy Liu), for the flailing publication after an attempted coup by her former assistant, Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt).

The film ends with Miranda and features editor Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) in the back of a car, mulling over the uncertain future of journalism at large. Mid-conversation, Miranda reveals that she knows Andy has been writing a tell-all book about her time at Runway. Andy declares that she no longer wants to, but Miranda insists that she move forward with her exposé, ruefully lamenting the moments she missed of her twin daughters growing up.

"You should write it, and you should keep all the juicy bits in," Miranda tells Andy. "How impatient I am; how demanding and imperious and how much of my children's lives I've missed. Just put it all in there, because people should know there's a cost. But boy, I love working. I really do, don't you? I just love it."

It's a scene that carried weight for Streep, 76, a three-time Oscar winner who shares three daughters and a son with Don Gummer (they split in 2017). The Hollywood icon ad-libbed that piece of dialogue herself.

“That line wasn't in there,” Streep tells USA TODAY, seated with Hathaway on a recent afternoon. “That was something that I threw in because I just do love working. I do love working as an actor. And I thought, for women, it's the way that Miranda shares that insight: It's a little sneaky, like, ‘Don't you sneak a cigarette every once in a while?’ Because it's still frowned upon that you're going to try to do the selfish thing that is rewarding to yourself and [also] want to have a family. I mean, people do. I did. I did want to have both.

“We're human beings,” Streep adds. “We should be able to do that and model for our children – our boys and girls – that it’s great to be creative, and to be out in the world and doing our very level best, you know?”

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Hathaway, 43, has two young sons with her husband, Adam Shulman. The Oscar-winning actress has been working steadily for more than 25 years, with breakthrough roles in 2001's "The Princess Diaries" and 2006's original "The Devil Wears Prada."

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“It's really amazing to be able to care for yourself economically,” Hathaway says. “I have been working since I was a teenager and I've been in charge of my own finances for that same amount of time, which means that I've signed every single check in my life as an adult. I've paid my rent. I put myself through college. All of those things, I took on that financial responsibility.”

As a result, “my life feels very much like my own,” Hathaway says. “I don't have to ask anyone for things. And I have no problems working to earn that freedom. I like it.” For many women, “that option has only been available for a few decades, which is crazy. So I don't really want to waste this opportunity.”

The month-long "Devil Wears Prada 2” promotional tour took both A-listers across the globe, with stops in Mexico City, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo.

In each city, girls would come up to them “and say, ‘This meant so much to me,’ ” Streep recalls. “I thought of it as a sort of frothy, fun movie, but it had some other kind of pull for young people, and that's very heartening. That means that it's [resonated] in a lot of different cultures. And a lot of different cultures are in different places, in regard to how they feel about women working.”

Amid the release of "The Devil Wears Prada 2," see the stars' looks from 20 years ago and now, beginning here with Anne Hathaway.

Hathaway opted for a stunning red dress in both 2006 and 2026, where she opted for a custom Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière strapless tea-length gown. She filmed the role of Andy Sachs in her early 20s.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Stanley Tucci, Meryl Streep, Adrian Grenier, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Daniel Sunjata attend the 20th Century Fox premiere of "The Devil Wears Prada" at the Loews Lincoln Center Theatre on June 19, 2006, in New York City.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Hathaway, Tucci, Streep and Blunt attend the world premiere of "The Devil Wears Prada 2" at Lincoln Center in New York on April 20, 2026.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Blunt donned a pink midi dress with crochet detailing at the neckline for the 2006 premiere.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Blunt opted for a voluminous cream-colored Schiaparelli couture gown, topped with hundreds of pearls, at the 2026 premiere.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Tucci and his late wife Kate, at the 2006 premiere. Kate Tucci died of breast cancer in 2009. Stanley Tucci went on to marry his costar Emily Blunt's sister, Felicity Blunt.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Tucci and Felicity Blunt attend the European premiere. The actor first met Blunt, a literary agent, at the 2006 premiere of "The Devil Wears Prada" film. Tucci and Blunt went on to marry in 2012, and the couple has two children together: son Matteo Oliver and daughter Emilia Giovanna. Tucci has three children from his marriage to Kate: daughter Camilla and twins Nicolo and Isabel.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Streep sported an off-white satin dress at the 2006 premiere, complete with lace details.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Streep went for a bold red caped gown by Givenchy by Sarah Burton at the 2026 premiere. She accessorized with black leather gloves and oversized black sunglasses.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Blunt is all smiles at the 2006 premiere.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Blunt goes for a powerful red statement at the 2026 European premiere.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Hathaway dons a little black dress at the 2006 premiere afterparty.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Hathaway opts for a sultry black gown at the 2026 European premiere.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Streep, Grenier and Hathaway attend the 2006 premiere.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Streep leans into theme dressing in a red jacket and heels for the 2026 European premiere.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Hathaway at the 2006 premiere.

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Amid the release of "The Devil Wears Prada 2," see the stars' looks from 20 years ago and now, beginning here with Anne Hathaway.Hathaway opted for a stunning red dress in both 2006 and 2026, where she opted for a custom Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière strapless tea-length gown. She filmed the role of Andy Sachs in her early 20s.

Andy and Miranda's poignant exchange is a direct mirror to the end of the first "Devil Wears Prada," which similarly ends with the two characterstalking in the back of a car in Paris. Only in that movie, Andy decided that she didn't want to wind up like Miranda, so she quit her job as her assistant.

“I was really touched by that line – ‘I love working’ – and I think that’s true,” director David Frankel says. "I admire people who love what they do so much that they’re determined to do it for all time, on their own terms. That’s admirable.”

In both films, "Miranda is a heroine for me,” Frankel says. “There's this [perception], ‘Oh, she's the evil boss!’ No, she's the hero. She's doing something that she loves. She's creating something day after day after day that's special and unique and iconic. And I admire that so much. And anybody who does anything with that same passion, and with that same excellence, deserves to be celebrated.”

Despite all their differences over the years, Andy respects that about Miranda, too. While Runway's long-term prospects look tentative at best, she decides there's no one she'd rather work alongside than her devilishly dedicated boss.

“It’s nice that she’s not walking away and throwing her phone in the fountain at the end,” Frankel says. “She's hanging on by her fingernails and hoping that she gets a say and hoping she's part of a team with Miranda. That’s a major change ‒ it shows maturity.”

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Romania, a nation of some 19 million people, shares around 400 miles of border with Ukraine. To its east, Romania abuts the Black Sea, the Danube River and -- beyond that -- Ukraine, putting that part of the country in particular on the front lines of Russia's war against its neighbor and Moscow's wider showdown with the NATO alliance.

The contact zone there spans the Danube, the river's width of around 1,640 feet -- less than three football fields -- separating Romania and its NATO defenses from the Ukrainian river ports that have for years been a focus of Russia's long-range drone and missile bombardments.

Data provided to ABC News by Romania's Defense Ministry shows that the rate of Russian attacks on Ukrainian targets close to the NATO frontier is increasing, resulting in more regular scrambling of NATO fighters for defensive missions, more violations of NATO airspace by Russian drones and the discovery of more munition fragments on allied territory.

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In all four categories, 2026 is set to be a record-breaking year, according to Bucharest's tallies.

As of April 28, since the start of 2026, Romania recorded seven airspace violations by Russian drones, the discovery of munition fragments 11 times and the scrambling of "Air Policing" missions 18 times, a Defense Ministry spokesperson told ABC News. Those incidents were the result of the 25 Russian attacks on Ukrainian areas close to Romania's border.

Within the first four months of this year, the figures are already approaching the record annual highs set across 2025, during which Romania reported nine airspace violations, the discovery of fragments 16 times, 21 air policing missions and 28 attacks on Ukrainian targets close to Romania.

In total since Russia launched its invasion, Romania has recorded 25 airspace violations, the discovery of fragments 47 times, 53 air policing scrambles and 91 attacks on Ukrainian targets close to the shared border, the Defense Ministry's data showed.

Thus far, then, the first third of 2026 alone accounts for around 28% of all airspace violations since 2022, 23% of incidents of fragment discovery, nearly 34% of all air policing missions and 27% of attacks close to Romania's border.

Constantin Spinu, a former Romanian Defense Ministry official who left his role in 2025, told ABC News that Bucharest always expected Russia to expand attacks along the country's shared border with Ukraine, particularly after the breakdown in 2023 of the Black Sea Grain Initiative -- negotiated between Russia and Ukraine in 2022 -- which had sought to ensure the safe flow of grain exports from southern Ukrainian and Russian ports.

"We were very much aware that this would happen," Spinu said. "It was not possible back then to foresee the amplitude of the attacks."

The first Russian drone was discovered on Romanian territory in the fall of 2023, according to officials in Bucharest, though that craft was not equipped with explosives. "We realized again that it was a matter of when, not a matter of if, drones equipped with explosives would hit Romanian soil," Spinu said.

The Defense Ministry's data, Spinu said, showed a "clear" and "growing tempo" of Russian attacks on Ukrainian targets along the Romanian border.

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'Emphasis on restraint'

Romania has yet to shoot down any Russian drones or other munitions in its airspace, though national law does allow forces to engage drones in Romanian airspace during peacetime if lives or property are at risk.

There is no suggestion that Russian drones have been aimed at targets in Romania, Spinu said. "All the situations were consequences of their attacks on Ukrainian targets," he said. "I don't see this changing in the future."

Last week, British fighter jets were scrambled to track multiple drones attacking targets in Ukraine close to the Romanian border.

Initial reports suggested that the British aircraft intercepted the craft while they were in Ukrainian airspace, though the U.K. and Romanian defense ministries later clarified that the allied pilots tracked, but did not fire upon, the drones.

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Romanian authorities said that around 200 people were evacuated during the incursion, which saw one drone land in the southeastern border city of Galati. Romanian President Nicusor Dan said it was "the first incident where Romanian property has actually been damaged, a threshold we take very seriously."

Following that incursion, Russia's ambassador in Bucharest -- Vladimir Lipayev -- told the state-run Tass news agency that the incident was a "provocation" by Kyiv.

Romania's Foreign Ministry summoned Lipayev to protest the violation. The ambassador, though, told Tass after the meeting, "Due to the lack of any objective evidence of the drone's national identification, the protest was rejected as far-fetched and groundless."

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The incident again raised questions as to whether NATO forces should intercept Russian munitions close to allied borders while they are still in Ukrainian airspace.

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Ionela Ciolan, a research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies think tank in Brussels, told ABC News that Romania's political leadership has shown "a consistent emphasis on restraint" regarding wayward Russian drones.

"Those in power in Bucharest are careful to avoid any actions that could be interpreted as direct participation in the conflict," Ciolan said. Questions as to a more assertive NATO posture "remain largely absent from the domestic agenda," she added.

Oana Popescu-Zamfir, the director of the GlobalFocus Center think tank in Bucharest, told ABC News that the government in Bucharest is broadly "downplaying these incidents and avoids commenting too much about them."

"The general perception that still the war is something that -- though it's on our border -- is still kind of distant," Popescu-Zamfir said. The official understanding appears to be that the violations are "not a direct act of hostility from Russia," she added.

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That stance could be partly down to domestic political considerations, Ciolan said. "Romanian society has become increasingly polarized," Ciolan said. Recent data suggests that only about 55% of Romanians primarily blame the Kremlin for the war, while approximately 14% attribute responsibility to Ukraine and others point to the U.S. or the European Union," she said.

Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with the declared intention of toppling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government in Kyiv.

The "special military operation," as the Kremlin described the invasion, followed eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine, sparked by Russia's annexation of Crimea and fomentation of separatist rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.

The cost of action

The first instance of NATO nations downing drones came last year, when Polish and Dutch fighters destroyed three Russian drones over Poland. At least 19 drones penetrated Polish airspace in that instance, according to Warsaw.

After that incident, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Moscow was engaging in "reckless behavior" and said the incursion was not "not an isolated incident."

"Allies are resolved to defend every inch of allied territory," Rutte added. "We will closely monitor the situation along our eastern flank, our air defenses continually at the ready."

Russian officials have broadly denied any responsibility for munition incursions into neighboring nations, while also accusing NATO states of allowing Ukraine to use their airspace for routing drone attacks into Russia -- an allegation allied leaders have denied.

As incursions mount, politicians in NATO member states are facing more public pressure to take action. But a more assertive response could carry political, military and economic risks, the analysts who spoke to ABC News said.

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"It is extremely costly to shoot down drones that may only cost a few thousand euros with missiles that can cost hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of euros," Ciolan said. Engaging incurring Russian drones could also hand Moscow useful military intelligence on NATO capabilities.

Romania and other NATO allies are rushing to adopt versions of cheaper counter-drone munitions showcased by Ukraine. In January, for example, Romanian military chief Gen. Gheorghita Vlad said Bucharest planned to acquire the U.S.-made MEROPS interceptor drone.

The costs of intercepting could also balloon if targets are engaged over populated areas, with drones, defensive munitions and falling debris all posing risks to people and property on the ground.

"It doesn't make sense from an economical point of view, but also from a public safety point of view," Spinu said.

Popescu-Zamfir said that while Romania has "made progress" on the issue, the country largely lacks the political will and means to engage.

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"We now have a clear legal framework that actually allows us to directly engage the drones," she said, "and it also allows the pilots, in cases where we use fighter jets, to make that decision."

"But we don't actually have the equipment," Popescu-Zamfir added. "We have started positioning more radars and sensors around the Danube Delta, but we're nowhere near where we should be."

Romania, along with its NATO allies, faces a difficult and ever-evolving threat, Spinu said.

"You cannot install defensive equipment that would cover the whole border of Romania with Ukraine," he explained. "That's not militarily or economically possible. And no country in the world would be able to do that."

"It's a matter of risk calculation," Spinu said, suggesting that the defense of populated areas and critical infrastructure must take precedent over sparsely-populated border regions in which Russian drones have largely fallen.

"I don't think anyone has the perfect solution," Spinu added. "Not even the most developed armed forces in NATO."