Nov. 10, 2024, 2:22 p.m.
(Photo: Police of Moldova)
The General Inspectorate of the Moldovan Police reported the discovery of an unknown drone that crashed near the village of Firledeni, Kaushan district, near the border with Odesa region.
According to the Moldovan police press service, the information was immediately passed on to the competent authorities, and access to the area where the drone fell was restricted.
All Moldovan special services were working at the scene, and the plane will be examined by specialists from the explosives department of the IHL's Expert Technical Forensic and Criminalistics Center.
The number of people injured in the attack on Odesa by unmanned aerial vehicles on the night of November 10 has increased to two. According to the Air Command, on the night of November 10, 2024 (from 20.00 on November 9), the enemy attacked with a record number of unmanned aerial vehicles, firing 145. As of 9:30 a.m., the military confirmed the downing of 62 enemy UAVs in Odesa, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Donetsk regions.
In October, starting on September 29, NATO stepped up surveillance of Romania's airspace, deploying an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft.
During a massive attack by Russians in Odesa region on the night of September 27, one Russian army drone entered Romanian airspace. Before that, on the evening of September 7, a group of Russian Shahed attack drones violated Romanian airspace, which led to warnings to residents of Tulcea and Constanta counties about the risk of objects falling from the airspace. According to the Romanian publication hotnews.ro, representatives of the Tulcea Emergency Situations Inspectorate explained that these messages were necessary to inform the population of the Romanian border area.
The command of the Ukrainian Air Force also reported that the unmanned aerial vehicle was over the territory of Romania in the Sabandzia area, flew over Vilkovo and continued to fly over the coastal waters of the Gulf of Odesa.