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Nato and EU condemn Russia after drone hits Romanian residential block

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Romania says the Russian drone was likely hit over Ukraine by its air defences and altered its trajectory.

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1940

Hundreds Are Reported Killed In Hot Soviet-Rumanian Clash; British Blast Italian War Plants; Hungarian Plane Also Shot Down, Budapest Says

BY the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, Aug. 27.—Rumanian armed forces clashed today with Soviet Russian and Hungarian air forces and with Russian troops as Southeastern Europe's tension mounted. A Rumanian fighter plane shot down a Hungarian bomber over Hungarian soil this morning, the Foreign Office announced. At the same time reports reached Budapest diplomats of a bloody skirmish on the Russian-Rumanian frontier Sunday morning with the loss of hundreds of troops on both sides. At least two Rumanian planes were shot down, the report said. The fighting, which the dispatches said occurred just north of Dorohoi in Northern Moldavia, was reported to have started late Sunday and lasted several hours. It was resumed yesterday. A foreign military attache at Bucharest who wrote the dispatches estimated that more than 800 Rumanian soldiers were slain. Just two months ago Rumania bowed to a Russian ultimatum, agreeing to cede to the Soviet Union Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina. As the Russians marched in early in July to take over their gains there were clashes between the retreating Rumanians and Soviet troops. Dorohoi is close to the new border formed by the Bessarabia and Bucovina cessions. The fighting was said to have occurred when Soviet troops crossed the border into Rumania. They were understood to have penetrated deeply before being forced back. The clash was said to have involved Rumanian troops. Four Russian warplanes which

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Second Vienna Award

Germany used Romania's new desperation to force a revision of the territorial settlement produced by the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 in favour of Germany's old allies: Hungary and Bulgaria. On 30 August 1940, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania, including all of Maramureș and part of Crișana, from the Kingdom of Romania to the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Carol II of Romania

The acceptance of the Second Vienna Award completely discredited Carol with his people, and in early September 1940 enormous demonstrations broke out all over Romania demanding that Carol abdicate. Carol was forced to abdicate on 6 September 1940, leaving his teenage son Michael I on the throne.

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Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom

Between 21 and 23 January 1941, a rebellion of the Iron Guard paramilitary organization, whose members were known as Legionnaires, occurred in Bucharest, Romania. During the rebellion and subsequent pogrom, the Iron Guard killed 125 Jews, and 30 soldiers died in the confrontation with the rebels. Following this, the Iron Guard movement was banned and 9,000 of its members were imprisoned.

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