{"id":26939,"date":"2026-07-13T09:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=26939"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:40:00","slug":"drone-crashed-and-exploded-in-moldova-during-russias-overnight-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=26939","title":{"rendered":"Drone Crashed and Exploded in Moldova During Russia\u2019s Overnight Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the night of <strong>July 13<\/strong>, a drone crashed and exploded near the village of <strong>Copanca<\/strong> in Moldova&#8217;s C\u0103u\u0219eni district. According to preliminary information, the aircraft was a Russian <strong>Geran-2 (Shahed-136)<\/strong> drone that entered Moldovan airspace during Russia&#8217;s overnight attack on Ukraine&#8217;s Odesa region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident was confirmed by <strong>Moldova&#8217;s Ministry of Defense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry said the aerial object was detected at <strong>1:03 a.m.<\/strong> Preliminary findings indicate that the <strong>Geran-2<\/strong> drone crossed Moldovan airspace as Russian forces carried out strikes against Ukraine&#8217;s Odesa region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emergency and technical specialists were dispatched to the crash site to investigate the explosion and examine the drone&#8217;s remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense Ministry urged residents not to approach, touch, or move any suspicious drones or debris, warning that such objects may contain explosive components that are sensitive to radio signals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not the first such incident. On <strong>June 8<\/strong>, debris from a drone was also discovered in Moldova following another Russian aerial attack on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, in <strong>March<\/strong>, Moldovan border guards found another unmanned aerial vehicle near the country&#8217;s border with Ukraine after it crashed in the southern part of Moldova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of July 13, a drone crashed and exploded near the village of Copanca in Moldova&#8217;s C\u0103u\u0219eni district. According to preliminary information, the aircraft was a Russian Geran-2 (Shahed-136) drone that entered Moldovan airspace during Russia&#8217;s overnight attack on Ukraine&#8217;s Odesa region. The incident was confirmed by Moldova&#8217;s Ministry of Defense. Details The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26952,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26939\/revisions\/26952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}