A drone once again violated Moldova's airspace amid Russian attacks on Ukraine

On the evening of Wednesday, August 26, a drone once again violated Moldova’s airspace. The incident occurred amid another round of Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory. Moldovan authorities detected the UAV flying over their territory and are investigating the circumstances of the airspace violation.

“The unauthorized overflight of our country’s airspace occurred following today’s Russian airstrikes on Ukraine,” the Moldovan Ministry of Defense stated.

According to a report from the National Army’s Air Operations Service, at 5:38 p.m., an unmanned aerial vehicle was detected entering airspace near the town of Palanka from Ukrainian territory.

At 5:43 p.m., the object flew back into Ukrainian territory from the direction of the town of Tudor, near the village of Hradenytsi in the Odesa region.

This was reported by Newsmaker, citing the Moldovan Ministry of Defense.

An unidentified drone entered the airspace of Moldova and Romania.

Earlier, Romania scrambled fighter jets due to the threat of drones near the border with Ukraine.

As a reminder, on Sunday, August 2, air raid sirens were sounded for the civilian population in eastern Romania for the second time that day. The country’s Ministry of Defense radar surveillance system detected an aerial target near the river border with Ukraine at 3:09 p.m.

In Poland, during a massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine on the night of July 29–30, an air raid alert was issued in part of the Lublin Voivodeship. After the alert ended, a crater about 10 meters in diameter and debris from an unidentified object were discovered in a field near the villages of Tarnava-Kolonia and Tokary.