{"id":575217,"date":"2026-09-09T22:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=575217"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:28:51","slug":"norwegian-pm-zelenskyy-s-plane-nearly-collided-with-a-drone-while-flying-from-moldova-to-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/norwegian-pm-zelenskyy-s-plane-nearly-collided-with-a-drone-while-flying-from-moldova-to-oslo","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian PM: Zelenskyy\u2019s Plane Nearly Collided With A Drone While Flying From Moldova To Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The plane carrying Ukrainian President <strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> nearly came under attack by a drone while departing Moldova for Oslo. Norwegian Prime Minister <strong>Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re<\/strong> told Norwegian broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/artikkel\/store-zelenskyjs-fly-ble-nesten-truffet-av-drone-pa-vei-fra-moldova-til-oslo-1527509\">NRK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHis plane nearly collided with a drone during takeoff in Moldova. This is the reality he lives in,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy arrived in Oslo from Moldova on Tuesday evening to attend the funeral of King <strong>Harald<\/strong> <strong>V<\/strong>. According to NRK, Russian drones attacked Moldova\u2019s region bordering Ukraine overnight into Wednesday. As a result, the \u201cStarokozache\u201d border crossing was closed overnight. The airport from which Zelenskyy departed is about a two-hour drive from the crossing.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cYesterday, there was a drone threat in the airspace over Moldova, which delayed Zelenskyy\u2019s plane on its way to Oslo. He faces such threats every day. It is not known how close the drones were to his plane,\u201d<\/i> the Norwegian prime minister\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Moldovan Prime Minister <strong>Vasile Tofan<\/strong> said that 17 drones had fallen on Moldovan territory in August alone.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to Norway, the Ukrainian president held several meetings with the Norwegian prime minister, discussing the war in Ukraine and the need for additional air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>Before the funeral of King Harald, the Ukrainian president again visited the Norwegian prime minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>According to St\u00f8re, he asked Zelenskyy how his night had been. Zelenskyy replied that it had been a difficult night: he remained in contact and received reports about the locations where Russian missiles had fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Norwegian Finance Minister <strong>Jens Stoltenberg<\/strong> was also present at the meeting, where Zelenskyy spoke about the problems with his departure from Moldova.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHe told us about it yesterday evening when we met with him. I do not dare go into details, but he was delayed, and there were some threats to the plane. But I do not know enough details to say anything more,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy nearly came under attack by a drone while departing Moldova for Oslo. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. \u201cHis plane nearly collided with a drone during takeoff in Moldova. This is the reality he lives in,\u201d he said. Zelenskyy arrived in Oslo from Moldova [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":575216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa26a46bee32.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Norwegian PM: Zelenskyy\u2019s Plane Nearly Collided With A Drone While Flying From Moldova To Oslo"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143121,143123],"class_list":["post-575217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575217","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=575217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}