During a night enemy attack, one of the Shaheds crossed the Ukrainian-Moldavian section of the state border in the Odessa region. The Ministry of Defense of Moldova denies this.
Southern Defense Forces stated that maneuvers of Shahed-131/136 type attack UAVs in the operational zone of the Southern Ukrainian Defense Forces lasted two hours.
The route of one of the drones provocatively crossed the Ukrainian border with Moldova in the Odessa region. The drone flew several tens of kilometers over the territory of a neighboring state and again entered Ukrainian airspace, where it subsequently destroyed Ukrainian air defense forces.
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— One of the drones that flew to the Odessa region had very difficult maneuvering. It is obvious that the enemy provocatively laid out a route crossing the state border in the Ukrainian-Moldovan sector. “We recorded this border crossing,” said Natalya Gumenyuk, press secretary of the Southern Defense Forces, on the air of Unified News.
What they say in the Ministry of Defense of Moldova
The defense department of the neighboring state stated that not a single drone launched by the Russian Federation in the evening flew over the airspace of the Republic of Moldova.
— The Ukrainian side confirmed to us that all drones launched over the Odessa region were destroyed or jammed by Ukrainian air defense systems, the message says.
Natalia Gumenyuk noted that similar statements have already been made before, saying that nothing happened, and then the situation becomes clearer. According to her, it is likely that the Moldovan side did not check the preliminary information very carefully.
Missile attack on Ukraine
On the air of Unified News, the press secretary of the Southern Defense Forces, Natalya Gumenyuk, said that at night the Russians launched missiles in two directions — to the Kirovograd and Odessa regions. So the occupiers tried to disperse our air defense system and look at its readiness.
The drones that were flying to the Kirovograd region were destroyed. At the same time, enemy tactical aviation from the territory of the temporarily occupied Kherson region again launched two X-59 missiles towards Kirovograd. Our air defense forces destroyed these two targets.
Subsequently, the representative of the Air Force Command, Yuri Ignat, said in a telethon that not all missiles, both ballistic and X-59, were included in the downed statistics. But they did not achieve their goals.
— There is a well-planned counteraction, so there is such a result,” Yuri Ignat emphasized.
Regarding the enemy Shahed over Molodova, according to the representative of the Air Force, this happened more than once. Both missiles and drones have flown over Moldova or unrecognized Transnistria more than once.
