One of the cruise missiles that Russia used to attack Ukraine on the night of 24-25 December came from Moldova’s airspace, a report by the Ukrainian Air Force, as reported by European Pravda.
At 07:24 am on 25 December, the Ukrainian Air Force reported a cruise missile flying “in the direction of Chernivtsi from the territory of Moldova”.
Telegram channels monitoring Russian aviation claimed that the Russian missile travelled 140 kilometres across Moldova and Romania, entering Moldova in the town of Yampil in Vinnytsia Oblast (near the Moldovan border) and then Romania near the city of Daraban (a Romanian village near the border with Moldova).
However, the Moldovan Ministry of Defence has previously denied information about Russian missiles flying over the country’s territory.
On Christmas Eve, 24 December, Russia launched another missile attack on Ukraine. Explosions were reported in the cities of Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, and Dnipro, as well as in Poltava and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.
In response to the attack, Poland scrambled its aircraft and alerted its ground-based air defences.
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