Two Russian drones shot down in Moldova after violating its airspace – media report details

Two Russian drones were shot down in Moldova on Wednesday night after an attack on a Ukrainian port across the border between the two countries, Moldovan President Maia Sandu announced.

Sandu said on Thursday that Iranian-designed Shahed drones that violated her country's airspace "put the lives of Moldovans at risk," foreign media wrote, according to Telegraph.

The drones were shot down in a rural area in the south of the country after a Russian airstrike overnight on the Ukrainian port of Reni in the Odessa region, just 9 kilometers from the Moldovan city of Gurgulesti and 26 kilometers from the city of Galati in Romania, according to the Moldovan border police.

Work is underway to clarify the incident, which is not suspected to have left anyone injured.

"Russia's war against Ukraine has spilled over into Moldova again," Sandu said in a post on the social media platform X. "Russia does not respect borders, attacks civilians, spreads terror. Its war against Ukraine is criminal."

In response to the incident, Moldova's Foreign Ministry summoned the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in the capital, Chisinau, for talks and condemned the "unacceptable violations" that "pose a serious threat to the national security and citizens" of Moldova.

The ministry said it had presented the Russian diplomat with fragments of the drones "as concrete evidence" of the violations. /Telegraph/