{"id":568859,"date":"2026-08-17T20:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=568859"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:39:27","slug":"drone-crashed-and-exploded-in-moldova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/drone-crashed-and-exploded-in-moldova","title":{"rendered":"Drone Crashed And Exploded In Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On Aug. 17, an unidentified drone entered Moldova\u2019s airspace. It crashed near the village of Talmaza in the \u0218tefan Vod\u0103 district.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MDAarmy\/posts\/pfbid0hxNkiq2CmTzQbDm9c5uKKHo2vLuekdDHdHDivnY6CemDJNoojhRRtF5wSA9rKVVal\">information<\/a> from Moldova\u2019s Defense Ministry, the object was detected at 5:37 p.m. It was traveling in the Cuciurgan-Tiraspol direction. Airspace in the area was closed for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The object disappeared from monitoring systems near the settlement of Talmaza in the \u0218tefan Vod\u0103 district. An explosion followed by a vegetation fire was recorded 3 km from Talmaza.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1272px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-568859-1\" width=\"1272\" height=\"718\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/moldovadrone.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/moldovadrone.mp4\">https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/moldovadrone.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 17, an unidentified drone entered Moldova\u2019s airspace. It crashed near the village of Talmaza in the \u0218tefan Vod\u0103 district. According to information from Moldova\u2019s Defense Ministry, the object was detected at 5:37 p.m. It was traveling in the Cuciurgan-Tiraspol direction. Airspace in the area was closed for 15 minutes. The object disappeared from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":568858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a841a42a22cb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Drone Crashed And Exploded In Moldova"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568859","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=568859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}