Moldova counted 39 Russian drone incursions in eight months, against 17 in all of 2025
Its president says three decades without air defense cannot be undone in five years.
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One Russian drone held up seven flights in Moldova, Zelenskyy’s trip to Norway for King Harald V’s funeral among them
The drone crossed Moldova twice that afternoon, and controllers shut the airspace over the center of the country for more than an hour, until after it came down in the north.
Iceland and Poland tip special tribunal for Russia’s aggression to 17 — the minimum needed for a formal vote
With confirmations from Reykjavik and Warsaw, Ukraine's foreign minister announced the Council of Europe can now formally table the tribunal agreement for adoption in mid-May.
Moldova’s plan for Russian-controlled Transnistria: squeeze it economically, replace the separatist regime with an international administration
The non-paper proposes imposing uniform fiscal rules on Transnistria unilaterally, creating a convergence fund for political concessions, and joining the EU with Transnistria's EU law integration suspended "for a defined period."
Moldova to exit from Russian-led CIS bloc by mid-February, says foreign minister
Though it stopped participating years ago, Moldova stayed legally tied to the CIS until now. That is finally about to change.
Moldova shuts Moscow’s propaganda pipeline in middle of its capital, ending 1998 deal
Foreign Minister Popșoi calls the closure a calculated act of defense.
Russia-based oligarch funneled $39 million into vote-buying scheme in Moldova
Moldovan police uncovered a $39 million vote-buying scheme, allegedly led by oligarch Ilan Shor, using Russian bank accounts ahead of recent elections and referendum.
Sandu claims 300,000 votes bought in “fraud of unprecedented scale” at first round of Moldova’s presidential election
Moldova's referendum on EU membership passed by a razor-thin margin, with 50.08% voting in favor. Incumbent President Maia Sandu won the first round of presidential elections with 41% of the vote but will face pro-Russian candidate Aleksandr Stoianoglo in a runoff on 3 November.