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Russian drones and missiles enter Moldova’s airspace during mass attack on Ukraine.

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Moldova’s Foreign Minister, Mihai Popșoi, confirmed that multiple unmanned aerial vehicles and missiles violated the country’s air-space while on route to strike Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. Witnesses in border villages described explosions across the Ukrainian side and low-flying drones overhead in Moldova. Radar detection was reportedly incomplete, raising concern about Moldova’s air-defence and surveillance gaps. The dynamics reflect hybrid-warfare logic: Russia (or its proxies) using aerial incursions through allied or neutral states to test reaction times, provoke alarm and impose indirect cost without declaring war or engaging overtly. Moldova’s government publicly condemned the breach, emphasising that such violation of sovereignty threatens not only Ukraine but neighbouring states too.

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    Moldova’s Foreign Minister, Mihai Popșoi, confirmed that multiple unmanned aerial vehicles and missiles violated the country’s air-space while on route to strike Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. Witnesses in border villages described explosions across the Ukrainian side and low-flying drones overhead in Moldova. Radar detection was reportedly incomplete, raising concern about Moldova’s air-defence and surveillance gaps. The dynamics reflect hybrid-warfare logic: Russia (or its proxies) using aerial incursions through allied or neutral states to test reaction times, provoke alarm and impose indirect cost without declaring war or engaging overtly. Moldova’s government publicly condemned the breach, emphasising that such violation of sovereignty threatens not only Ukraine but neighbouring states too.