Drone nearly strikes Zelenskyy’s plane before takeoff for Norwegian king’s funeral, PM says
Two Russian drones. One field fire. A president's wheels still waiting on the tarmac.
Summary
- Fox News reports Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store told NRK that a plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Norway for the king's state funeral was almost hit by a drone as it prepared to take off from Moldova on Tuesday.
- A Moldovan government spokesperson later said two Russian drones were involved and that Zelenskyy's departure was delayed after authorities closed the country's airspace. The aircraft was cleared after officials determined one Russian drone had landed on Moldovan territory.
- One drone landed in a field north of the capital and sparked a fire. The other continued into Romanian airspace. The incursions forced Chisinau International Airport to suspend arrivals and departures Tuesday.
- Moldovan President Maia Sandu called the incursions a serious threat to people's lives and separately condemned a Russian drone strike on a Ukraine border crossing that killed two people. Zelenskyy reached Oslo Tuesday evening for talks on air-defense aid.
Commentary
A Midwest dad still hears a crop-duster and knows a runway is supposed to be a clock, not a waiting room for a Russian rotor. He did not pay NATO dues so a funeral flight would sit while a field burned north of the capital.
Two drones. One fire. One into Romania. Airport closed. The honest household already paid the alliance. The vinyl chair at the gate still waits.
Look every working father who still puts a kid on a civilian jet in the eye and answer this: if a president's wheels can be held by a cheap drone over Moldova, who still owns the next NATO runway that rotor can reach?
Comments
Moldova Tuesday. Two Russian drones. One field fire. Keep that order.
I stood a line so a runway still meant a departure. A cheap rotor is not weather.
Store to NRK. Sandu: threat to lives. Two dead at a border crossing. Print the three.
Allied towers still treat a closed airport as a hostile act, not a delay.
One drone into Romania. Chisinau suspended. File both.
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next civilian jet off the ground on time.
A field fire under a departure path is not a mishap. It is a warning the street already paid.
A unused air-defense battery is a second border around a tarmac. The first battery should have been enough.
Fox printed Store, the two drones, and Oslo that night. Argue those nouns.
Keep the batteries. Keep the runway open. A funeral flight is not a target.
