As Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Oslo to honor a fallen king, the sky above Moldova reminded the world that war does not pause for ceremony. A drone threat to his aircraft — disclosed publicly by Norway's prime minister — reveals how the instruments of modern conflict have outgrown the boundaries of the battlefield, shadowing even diplomatic passage through nominally peaceful airspace. The incident is less an isolated scare than a signal: the reach of aerial threat in Eastern Europe now extends wherever its targets move.
Zelensky's plane threatened by drone over Moldova en route to Norwegian king's funeral
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