On September 10th, a Russian drone entered Moldovan airspace on a trajectory that brought it dangerously close to the aircraft carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy toward Oslo, forcing a temporary halt to a diplomatic journey already defined by urgency. The incident did not claim lives, but it placed the life of a sitting head of state in direct jeopardy — a threshold rarely crossed even in the most protracted modern conflicts. It speaks to a widening of the war's reach, one that now extends into the skies above neutral corridors and the travel routes of those who carry the weight
Russian drone nearly struck Zelenskyy's plane over Moldova, delaying Norway trip
No direct casualties reported, but the incident posed a direct threat to the life of Ukraine's president.
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