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Russian drones reportedly crash in Moldova and Romaniapublished at 15:30 GMT<\/p>\n

15:30 GMT<\/p>\n

Sherie Ryder and Dzhafer Umerov
BBC Verify<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been looking at a number of social media posts showing what appear to be Russian drones that have come down in rural areas of Moldova and Romania. <\/p>\n

In Moldova, a drone was removed from the roof of a building in a rural location which we could geolocate by looking at surrounding trees, roofs and a closer inspection of a window.<\/p>\n

On the tail, we could see a red Z sprayed on the side, which is widely used as a pro-war symbol in Russia. <\/p>\n

Police identified the drone as a Gerbera – a Russian made variant of the Iranian Shahed – but without an explosive payload. <\/p>\n

The drone has been taken away for inspection. We sent the image to Stuart Ray, senior imagery analyst at McKenzie Intelligence Services Ltd, who confirmed to us it was a Gerbera.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Russians now build these on license and have modified them to have a longer range but less of a payload. They can also be used for reconnaissance and as a decoy,\u201d he told us.<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Facebook\/ Poli\u021bia Republicii MoldovaImage caption, <\/p>\n

Moldovan police posted this picture on Facebook of the white Gerbera drone with a red Z painted on the tailfin<\/p>\n

In Romania, which shares a 400-mile (640km) border with Ukraine, we saw reports of a drone landing in a house\u2019s courtyard in the village of Puiesti. <\/p>\n

Romania\u2019s Defence Minister Ionut Mosteanu said Nato pilots came close to shooting down a drone which entered the country\u2019s airspace. <\/p>\n

They held off firing over concern about causing damage on the ground, he added. <\/p>\n

We were able to match the entrance to the courtyard, along with drainage ducts on the road, with Google Maps Street View. Reverse Image Searches confirmed the images are new. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian drones reportedly crash in Moldova and Romaniapublished at 15:30 GMT 15:30 GMT Sherie Ryder and Dzhafer UmerovBBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-159036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}