Remnants of a Shahed-type drone were discovered in Moldova in a field two kilometers from the country’s border with Ukraine, as reported by the Moldovan Border Police on February 17th.
According to the border police, drone debris was found near the village of Etulia, a Moldovan border settlement located approximately 15 kilometers northeast of the Ukrainian Danube port of Reni and almost 40 kilometers northwest of Izmail.
Access to the area where the drone parts were found has been restricted, said the police.
The discovery comes a week after Moldova found a warhead containing 50 kilograms of explosives near the crash site of a Russian Shahed drone. Chisinau suspected the drone was shot down by Ukrainian air defense during a Russian attack against Odesa Oblast overnight on February 9-10.
Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said in a press conference on February 14 that the radar systems Moldova received from France in December 2023 cannot detect Shahed drones.
Previously, Russian drone strikes against Odesa Oblast led to drone debris falling on Romanian soil in the autumn of 2023. In response, Bucharest implemented additional security measures in the border region, which included building shelters and air defense systems.
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