Officials were careful not to point a finger, after revealing what they said was a plan for a political attack, at a time when a series of destabilizing actions have been blamed on Russia.
An illegal immigrant has been jailed for life for murdering a man in the UK just three years after serving a sentence in Romania for a "strikingly similar" killing.
Romania, a NATO ally buttressing the bloc's southeastern European flank, has become the hottest portion of the alliance's frontline with Russia during 2026 to date.