In January 2024, reports appeared on social networks that Romania supposedly prepares to capture the western part of Ukraine and is building a motorway for this. We decided to check if this is so.
On January 7, the news began to spread in Telegram channels that Romania is building a motorway connecting Bucharest and Western regions of Ukraine. It was argued that the purpose of construction is to ensure the access to the Romanian ports bypassing Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, and then the occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine. As evidence, the posts were accompanied by photographs of construction work and the road card. This, in particular, wrote Telegram channels about this "Ostashko! Important"(126,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Yakov Kedmi"(76 000) and"Tucker Carlson"(60 000).
The road shown on the map in viral posts exists, but so far only at the planning stage. Talking about creating a highway I was conducted Since 2011, but only in 2016, the Ministry of Transport of Romania released Strategic plan for building a network of high -speed roads throughout the country. The Moldova A7 A7, according to the plan, should go from Bucharest to the Ukrainian border.
Thus, the construction of the road is associated exclusively with the development strategy of Romania. The plan was published six years before the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and it was unlikely that Romanian officials foresaw that Ukrainian ports would be closed due to Russian missile attacks. In addition, the track should connect the Western regions of Ukraine with Bucharest, and not with the main port of Constance, so it is not clear what this task has to reach the sea.
To date, the road has turned into a long -building. Bye Open Only one 16-kilometer section of the highway near the city of BAREU.
By the end of 2024 Planned To finish the first kilometers of the highway between the cities of Bakeeu and Fokshani, by April 2025 to put this site into operation. The northern part of the highway adjacent to the Ukrainian border has not even begun to build.
Personnel of work shown in viral posts are also real - they are taken from the report of the publication Ziarul de Bacău, which was said not about the plans of the capture of Ukraine, but about the pace of construction of a particular section of the road.
Thus, posts in Telegram channels about the upcoming occupation of the Romania of Ukraine-manipulation. Based on the news on the construction of a real road, the construction of which was planned back in 2016, the authors of the post concluded that the road is connected with Romania's plans to capture part of Ukraine. Until now, none of the representatives of the Romanian authorities have spoke about such plans, and the authors have not explained the connection of the highway and occupation.
Photo on the cover: Ziarul de Bacău
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