Moldova pulls its border officers off Ukrainian soil again as Russian drones keep hitting crossings
“They will work on the territory of Moldova.” Moldovan Interior Minister Daniela Misail-Nikitin, on withdrawing border personnel from Ukraine.
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80% of Moldovans say country is unprepared for attack as Russian drones flow into its airspace, but few back NATO membership
A new poll shows widespread concern over Moldova’s ability to withstand an attack, even as only 4% of respondents see NATO membership as the answer. Russian drones have increasingly crossed Moldovan airspace in recent weeks.
Ukraine is buying 135 mobile shelters for border crossings as Russian drones reach from the Danube to Poland
Regional recovery services have opened 10 tenders, one of them for shelters on the road to a crossing into Romania.
Three Russian missiles and two drones strike Moldovan territory in morning attacks on neighboring Ukraine. Moldova is increasingly exposed to the risks of Russia’s war next door
Russia’s intensified attacks on Ukraine are creating growing risks for Moldova, with Russian weapons increasingly crossing into its territory.
Russian drone explodes in Moldova, day after its opposition moves to suspend its pro-EU president. Analyst says that’s no coincidence
A Russian drone exploded in Moldova on 30 September, detonating near the mast of a civilian mobile operator,…
Asked if Ukraine would send troops to defend NATO, Zelenskyy offered something else: know-how to stop drones now reaching its neighbors
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will share its drone-defense experience with partners facing Russian attacks, NATO or not, through the Drone Deal pacts.
ISW connects drone crashes in Moldova and Romania, a Starlink fire in Poland, and a Berlin airport shutdown into one Russian pattern
The institute connects drone crashes in Moldova and Romania, arson at a Polish Starlink station, and a Berlin airport shutdown into a single pattern of Russian pressure on European defense infrastructure.
Russian attack puts three countries on alert as drones enter Moldova and Romania
Moldovan police preliminarily identified the drone that exploded beside a farm as a camera-equipped Gerbera, the first of its type found in the country.
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.
Russia brings children from Moldova’s Transnistria to occupied Crimea for “patriotic education”
Schools in the Russia-backed enclave now begin each week with separatist flag ceremonies. Rights activists say children as young as 11 train with weapons and drones.
Russian spies ran a campaign against Kyiv on Anthropic’s Claude, and the AI chatbot’s maker caught them at it
The operators automated phishing, intrusion, and data theft, leaving the human to refine the workflows.
Money, not engineering, is what stands between Ukraine and Russia’s fastest drones, Zelenskyy says
Dozens of firms are chasing the problem, but nobody has funded production at the scale the nightly waves demand.
Poland expects Russia to target border crossings as attacks on Ukraine escalate – Russia has already hit crossings with Moldova and Romania
Moscow has already struck at least five crossings with Moldova and NATO member Romania since late August, pushing its aerial campaign farther from the front line.
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.
A drone nearly hit Zelenskyy’s plane taking off from Moldova on his way to a king’s funeral, Norway’s PM says
Zelenskyy arrived in Oslo having spent much of the night on the phone about strikes on his own country.
Far from any front line: Russia has hit at least five of Ukraine’s western border crossings with Moldova and NATO member since late August
During one strike, a drone flew into Moldova toward Romania and NATO jets scrambled.
Russian Black Sea attacks, low Danube waters push EU to seek alternative routes for Ukrainian grain exports
Ukraine’s two main wartime export outlets are under pressure at once, threatening farm revenue as global crop prices climb.
Moldova is investing in air defense against the Russian drones crossing from Ukraine—Romania shoots down the ones that reach it
Allied fighters over the neighboring NATO member have destroyed intruding drones repeatedly this year, while the neutral country in between can track them crossing but not shoot them down.
A suspected Russian intruder in Finland’s sky, and Helsinki wants answers
A three-minute crossing by a Russian reconnaissance plane has drawn in Helsinki's investigators and put its allies on notice.
Romania destroys a sea drone and finds aerial drone debris on its soil amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine
Both incidents occurred during the same overnight barrage that also triggered air defense activations in Poland and Moldova.