Constanța

Yes.

Thirteen kilometers southeast of Constanta.

The coastline here is deserted.

You should have little difficulty in making your way to the railroad.

Good.

The Constanta Bucharest Express leaves at nine in the morning.

All right.

From then on, it will be up to you.

Falun Dafa practitioners raise awareness of persecution in Romanian coastal cities.

Practitioners held activities in the resort towns of Constanța, Eferi Nord, Costi Nest and Mangalia from July 26 to August 11, to share Falun Dafa's values and to tell people how the Chinese Communist Party persecutes the practice.

Many people said they recognized the importance of the values promoted by Falun Dafa, truthfulness, compassion, forbearance, as essential for the existence of humanity, and they expressed their support for practitioners' right to practice their faith.

Some people signed a petition addressed to the G7 plus 7 countries to stop the persecution.

And honestly, Europe has quotas in place for imports that the Ukrainians can't even ship all of their grain into the European market.

The other alternative that worked in the past was to put it on a barge and go 600 extra kilometers on a river side canal of the Danube River to Constanza.

Constanza is in a city in Romania, south of Ukraine, part of the European Union.

But there are two limitations to that.

Number one, the Danube River right now, because of that heat wave and drought in Europe, has the lowest water levels in a very, very long time.

So logistics are not working well at all.

Second of all, the port of Constanza is It's not sitting idle around, that is exporting grain out of Romania, usually.

So you can't just say, oh, and on top of it, we'll handle another 50, 60 million tons of Ukrainian grain.

But the reason the Bosporus and Dardanelles are going to be soon, I think, turned into an escalation point is obviously the Black Sea situation is well and truly at its, at the greatest point of deterioration that it has ever been at in the last four and a half years of this conflict, and it has been four years and seven months of the Russo-Ukrainian War.

You have Ukraine basically shipping as much as it can, grain, other exporting goods, fertilizer, et cetera, anything that it can through the ports of Constanța, Varna, and Burgas.

Obviously, Varna and Burgas are Turkish-- uh, sorry, Bulgarian ports on the west coast of the Black Sea.

Constanța is a Romanian port, which Russia at this, at this moment hasn't really attempted to touch those particular ships or those ports, but the three Odesa ports well and truly are in a state of much disrepair.

The Ukrainians simply don't have the ability to rebuild some of the ship reloading facilities that have been hit by the Russians in a fast enough fashion in order to get them back online.

Notice the Ukrainians have been doing a lot of rebuilding over the last four years of all kinds of energy factories, electricity stations, et cetera, all across Kyiv, Kharkiv, et cetera, other major cities across Ukraine over the last few years.

No, I take that back.

I was in Constanţa, Romania nine years ago before I moved there, and I was in a club and I must've been the only foreign person in the club, and there was a 11 out of 10 Moldova, the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen.

And I went over and I tried to talk to her and she said, "Uh, yeah, I only drink champagne." At the time I didn't have that much money.

Said, "Oh, you only drink champagne.

Next table, champagne show.

And while she was doing all this, I was, we were kinda catching each other's eye, looking a little bit, da, da, da.

And a couple times I caught her at lunch, Constanţa's like a beach town.

I caught her at lunch, I spoke for a little bit.

Wow.

For the first leg of the tour, we were accommodated on a huge summer camp in Constanta on the Black Sea coast, which we would be sharing with 2,000 Romanian teenagers, many of whom had soon partied with their holiday money but were sporting their much-coveted blue jeans, while many others looked forward to presenting their delighted parents with a 10-Deutschmark note or a crisp British fiver, albeit a bit tacky after being stuffed down the saliva-soaked tubing of a brass instrument.

Problems began, however, as no one had warned us about the national shortage of window putty in Romania.

Again, I haven't heard this reported on.

He released a book in 2003, and has basically just kept himself involved in football since.

Um, he ended up becoming president of Constanţa.

Uh, Hagi was sort of the overseer of the project.

There'd been a, a merging of clubs, uh, or there was a merging of clubs I think then thereafter, and he, he kinda stayed on as president.

So let's look at the probing in three places at once.

Yesterday morning, 20th August, at 6.28 local time, the crew of a merchant vessel radioed Romania's coast guard to report a naval drone sitting a few hundred metres from the Neptune Deep gas platform, 80 nautical miles east of Constanta, inside Romania's exclusive economic zone.

Explosive laden, this was military grade, this was not a rehearsal, and drifting towards a working platform.

Romania scrambled two F-16s and destroyed it with cannon fire.

A bus pass runs about 67 lei a month.

You can live in Constanța for less than you'd live in any comparable Romanian city in Transylvania, and you get the seat.

Practical things quickly.

Transit here is simple.

there was, there was just, um-- This is the only thing I'm gonna mention.

There were, uh, a bunch of unexploded Ukrainian drones that they found, uh, in Constanta, uh, which eventually exploded because they're pre-programmed to explode if they lose connection with base.

And there were discussions of the R-Russian interference, like satellite operations to disrupt targeted disruption of the GPS navigation of these drones to make them end up-

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in Constanta instead of Crimea or somewhere else, um, which is a very, very interesting thing.

And, uh, yeah, there's a lot of research papers about these, uh, Russian military satellites that can perform targeted, uh, GPS disruption.

They have actually cons- uh, constellation of satellites, military satellites that, uh, are launched and, um, running for this purpose.