Four days after Prime Minister Chuke announced that he was waiting for an explanation, Vasile Dinku arrived on Monday morning at the government, where he is discussing with the head of the executive power the topic of statements regarding negotiations with Russia.

Coalition sources told HotNews last week that the prime minister will ask Dinka to resign.

The defense minister said on Thursday that he was upset by the way events developed after his statement regarding talks with Russia on peace in Ukraine. He says that so far no one has asked him to resign and blames the UDR for “the scandal that happened in Bucharest.”

In an intervention on the Prima TV channel, the Minister of Defense of Romania stated that “the war in Ukraine will continue and that the only chance for peace may be negotiations with Russia.”

“Of course, these are difficult negotiations (…) The countries of the world, NATO, the USA should conduct negotiations for Ukraine about security guarantees and peace with Russia. Ukraine itself will not be able to negotiate with Russia, because the political class in Ukraine cannot now allow, assume (…) the loss of territories, the ultimately unjust loss of territories. It would be too big a defeat for politics,” he said.

Defense Minister Vasile Dinka’s statements, in turn, were supported by President Klaus Iohannis, PSD leader Marcel Cholaku and Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke.

“In this war, Russia is attacking Ukraine. In this war, Ukrainians are paying with blood, and we all have to accept the opinion that only Ukraine will decide when, how and what to negotiate. This position is our official position, this is the official position of the European Union, and probably some of our senior figures need to read the press journal more often to learn about these positions,” Johannis said on Tuesday.

Vasile Dinku, “as a personal, collegial opinion, categorically yes, he was wrong,” Marcel Colaku said on Wednesday, arguing that when you are the defense minister in a country in a conflict zone, you cannot have “personal opinions, beliefs.”

In addition, he insisted that Dinku did not consult with either President Iohannis or Prime Minister Chuke before making statements about negotiations with Russia.

“I am waiting for the minister to return to the country from the NATO ministry. We want a discussion that is as open as possible to your opinion. This is not the opinion of the government, and then we will have to resolve this issue very clearly,” Nikolae Chuke said on Thursday.