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Official travelling with Ukrainian president says they believe a Russian weapon was used
prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre told public broadcaster NRK that Zelenskiy’s “plane was almost hit by a drone as it was about to take off from A senior Ukrainian official aboard the plane with Zelenskiy confirmed the report and said they believed it was a Russia n Shahed-type drone powered by a jet engine.
A wickedly inventive political ad is airing in Texas as midterm elections loom The attack was launched as Zelenskiy was travelling to Norway to attend the funeral of King Harald. Moldovan authorities temporarily halted operations at Chișinău airport following the incident. A Moldovan government spokesperson said on Wednesday that the country had closed its airspace on Tuesday, shortly after 4.30pm, after a Russian drone violated its airspace. They said the drone came from the direction of Ukraine.
The spokesperson added that at about 5.20pm, the drone exploded near Mihăilenii Vechi, in the Rîșcani district, some 160km from Chișinău international airport, from where Zelenskiy’s aircraft later took off. Moldovan air traffic and Ukrainian military tracking indicated that a jet-powered attack drone crossed Ukraine’s border at about 4.20pm local time, travelling west towards Moldova. At 4.38pm, the drone entered Romanian airspace and by 4.47pm the target was being tracked about 70km inside Romania and continued on a westerly course.
The drone subsequently re-entered Moldovan airspace at 5.04pm, but radar contact was lost 10 minutes later. Russia has recently stepped up strikes using jet-powered drones in barrages with ballistic missiles that Ukrainian air defences have struggled to counter. The incident on Tuesday prompted heightened security around Chișinău airport. Zelenskiy also offered the use of a Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet to intercept the drone, according to Ukrainian officials.
The Norwegian prime minister did not say whether the aircraft had been directly targeted or how close the drone came to the plane. But the Ukrainian official travelling with Zelenskyy said the drone came so close that it could have been targeting the plane. Ukrainian authorities are investigating the incident.
The incident comes after high-level visits by Donald Trump’s special envoys to Moscow and Kyiv, where they were trying to reinvigorate peace talks that stalled after the start of the US war in Iran. It also highlighted the growing risks posed by the war in Ukraine to neighbouring countries and civilian aviation in the region, as drones and missiles have increasingly crossed into EU and Nato airspace during Russian attacks on Ukraine in recent months.
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