{"id":559230,"date":"2026-07-13T09:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=559230"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:17:27","slug":"russian-drone-crashes-and-explodes-in-moldova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russian-drone-crashes-and-explodes-in-moldova","title":{"rendered":"Russian Drone Crashes and Explodes in Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A drone crashed and exploded near the village of Copanca in Moldova&#8217;s C\u0103u\u0219eni District overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s Defence Ministry and Foreign Ministry said it was a Russian Geran-2 drone. The drone crashed while flying through Moldovan airspace during an attack on the Odesa region.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report of an explosion at around 1 a.m. Officers arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. There were no reports of casualties. Judging by a published photograph, the fuel exploded, while the warhead did not detonate.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThis new incident represents a serious and unacceptable violation of Moldova&#8217;s airspace and once again confirms that Russia&#8217;s war of aggression against Ukraine poses direct threats to the security of our citizens and the entire region,\u201d<\/i> Moldova&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drone crashed and exploded near the village of Copanca in Moldova&#8217;s C\u0103u\u0219eni District overnight. The country&#8217;s Defence Ministry and Foreign Ministry said it was a Russian Geran-2 drone. The drone crashed while flying through Moldovan airspace during an attack on the Odesa region. Police received a report of an explosion at around 1 a.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":559229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a54ad2aea86f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russian Drone Crashes and Explodes in Moldova"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143121],"class_list":["post-559230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}