Russia Targeted Zelenskyy’s Plane Twice in Moldova, He Says, as Drone Threat Spreads Across Europe
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Updated · CBS New York · Sep 15
Russia Targeted Zelenskyy’s Plane Twice in Moldova, He Says, as Drone Threat Spreads Across Europe
3 articles · Updated · CBS New York · Sep 15
Summary
Zelenskyy said Russia targeted his presidential plane twice in recent weeks while it transited Moldovan airspace, including an unreported return-flight incident involving one or two drones near Chisinau.
Sept. 9 was one of those episodes: Norway’s prime minister said Zelenskyy’s jet was almost hit by a drone as he departed for Oslo, though Ukrainian officials later said everyone in the delegation was safe.
Zelenskyy told CBS the attacks fit a Russian strategy to intimidate him and visiting foreign leaders, pointing to Sunday’s drone strike on a passenger train carrying European officials and former CIA Director David Petraeus near the Polish border.
The claim comes as drone incursions into European airspace are rising; Lithuania said NATO fighter jets shot down a drone in its airspace for the first time on Tuesday.