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Oslo says a drone "almost hit" Zelensky's plane over Moldova; the Kremlin says nothing threatened it

Three reports, three accounts of Tuesday afternoon over Moldova. Only one of them carries a clock, and none carries a flight track.

Prima reacție a Kremlinului privind incidentul cu avionul lui Zelenski, care risca să fie lovit de o dronă rusă în Republica Moldova
Prima reacție a Kremlinului privind incidentul cu avionul lui Zelenski, care risca să fie lovit de o dronă rusă în Republica Moldova as published by Digi24 · seen at Digi24
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Oslo. Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre said on Wednesday that the plane carrying Volodymyr Zelensky "almost was hit by a drone" as it took off from Moldova for King Harald V's funeral. One of the three reports we hold names him.

Moscow. The Kremlin denied on Thursday that the plane was threatened by any drone. That report opens on the denial and never quotes the claim being denied.

Chișinău. Moldova's government describes a closure, not a near miss: airspace shut after 16:30 on 8 September when a Russian drone crossed in from Ukraine, three departures and four arrivals delayed, the drone confirmed to have exploded on the ground 160 km from Chișinău airport. Zelensky's plane, it says, left late for that reason.

Who What happened to the plane Whose drone
Jonas Gahr Støre, via HotNews.ro "almost hit by a drone" not said
The Kremlin, via Digi24 not threatened at all no drone named
Moldova's government, via HotNews.ro took off late Russian, in from Ukraine
Público "close to being hit" no source named

Not settled. Whether a drone came near the aircraft at all. No report we hold carries radar returns for the plane or a flight track. The Shahed identification rests on one unnamed source speaking to The Kyiv Independent. No report gives the time Zelensky's plane actually left.

What this is about. A Russian drone crossed into Moldova on the afternoon Ukraine's president was due to fly out of Chișinău. The question is whether it came close to his plane.

How it got here. - Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. On 24 February 2022 it launched a full-scale invasion. The war has continued since. - Both sides fight partly with drones. Russia sends long-range attack drones, many of them the Iranian-designed Shahed type, at Ukrainian cities and power plants. - Some have strayed across Ukraine's western borders into Moldova and Romania. This has happened repeatedly since 2022. It is how this war reaches the edge of the European Union. - Earlier this month we carried two accounts of a pause in strikes on Kyiv. Le Figaro said Putin ordered it. NOS said both presidents agreed to it. Drone flights over the region have continued since.

Who is involved, and why. - Ukraine, led by Volodymyr Zelensky, depends on Western military aid, above all for air defence. That was the reason for his meetings in Oslo. - Russia, whose drone it was according to Moldova's government, denies the plane was ever threatened. - Moldova borders Ukraine. It is not in the EU or NATO but has been an EU candidate since June 2022. Russian troops remain in its breakaway Transnistria region. - Romania is in both the EU and NATO. Its defence ministry tracked the drone and sent up two F-18s. - Norway is in NATO but not the EU, and backs Ukraine. Its prime minister made the "almost hit" claim.

What is at stake. If a Russian drone did endanger a head of state's aircraft, this is no longer a stray-drone story. It becomes a direct risk to a leader, and a test of how Moldova and NATO's eastern members police their skies. If it did not, it was one more drone incursion of a kind the region has seen before.

Where it stands. Moldova has confirmed a drone, the airspace closure and a late departure. It has not confirmed a near miss. No flight track has been published, and neither has any radar picture of the plane.

The story so far

Earlier stories The AI Times filed on this thread.

What is being argued about

  • Whether a drone came close to Zelensky's plane as it left Moldova, or whether nothing threatened it
  • Moldova's account of a closed airspace, timed to the minute, that describes no near miss at all
  • A drone track that Romania says crossed its own airspace, sending up jets and alerting five counties
  • Who is named as sending the drone, and who is left out of the sentence
Five accounts of one take-offSide by side
Who says itWhat it says happenedHedged?
Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian prime minister (HotNews.ro)The plane "almost was hit by a drone" as it took off from MoldovaGiven as his words, inside quotation marks
The Kremlin (Digi24)The plane was not threatened by any drone after taking off on Tuesday for OsloStated flat, as a denial; the claim denied is not quoted
Moldova's government spokesperson (HotNews.ro)Airspace closed after 16:30 on 8 September; a Russian drone had crossed in from Ukraine; the plane left late because of itNo near miss claimed; the closure is written with no authority named as deciding
PúblicoZelensky's plane came close to being hit by a drone in MoldovaNo source named; one sentence at the foot of a report on Sumy
An unnamed source, to The Kyiv Independent (HotNews.ro)The drone crossed Romanian and Moldovan airspace and is believed to have been a Russian ShahedDoubly hedged — "believed to be", and the source is not named
Wording as each report has it, translated. No line here is corroborated by a second report.
Sources Digi24
Centre estimate · not a score
Digi24 🇷🇴RO · TV/radio · independent Prima reacție a Kremlinului privind incidentul cu avionul lui Zelenski, care risca să fie lovit de o dronă rusă în Republica Moldova Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Digi24 → What we have measured A judgement of the Union quoted in the headline the premier's verdict on the Union printed as the headline claim ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the attackers were separate from the shepherds ×1Asserted vs attributed States flat that the document is fake; another report sources this to the Order's ambassador ×1Attributed, not asserted Russia's account of where the strike happened is given to the Kremlin, with the news agency chain named ×1 from 5389 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → HotNews.ro
Centre estimate · not a score
HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent Ce spune Chișinăul despre avionul lui Zelenski, care „aproape a fost lovit” de o dronă Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at HotNews.ro → What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → P Público
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Público 🇵🇹PT · newspaper · independent Ataque russo contra centro comercial em Sumi faz dois mortos e 20 feridos Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Público → What we have measured Anyone hurt The only report carrying casualties gives a count and no names ×1Asserted or attributed the Saudi account arrives as a confirmation, not a claim ×1Casualties stated flat, unnamed the same two deaths are stated without source and without who killed them ×1Flat context The same Iran link is stated flat, with no source ×1 from 3295 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The afternoon of 8 September, as one report reconstructs itTimeline
  1. Tue 8 Sep— no time published Romanian defence ministry Says its radars detected an air target north of Roman, after it had crossed Moldovan airspace; two fighter jets were sent up and alert messages went to five counties 5 countiesIași, Botoșani, Suceava, Neamț, Vaslui
  2. Tue 8 Sep16:30 Moldovan government spokesperson Moldova's government Airspace closed after this time, following the detection of a Russian drone that entered without authorisation from Ukraine 3 departures, 4 arrivals delayedGiven as the reason Zelensky's plane left late
  3. Tue 8 Sep17:08 Romanian defence ministry Romanian defence ministry The target is re-identified on radar, back in Moldovan airspace
  4. Tue 8 Sep17:20 Moldovan government spokesperson Moldovan authorities Receive confirmation, after this time, that the drone exploded on the ground at Mihăilenii Vechi, Râșcani district about 160 km from Chișinău airportFlight restrictions later lifted
  5. Tue 8 Sep17:33 Romanian defence ministry Romanian defence ministry The air alert ends in all five counties
  6. Tue 8 Sep18:30 Romanian defence ministry Romanian authorities Are informed the drone came down at Mihăilenii Vechi in Moldova about 25 km east of the Romanian borderOpposite Botoșani county
  7. Wed 9 Sep— no time published Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian prime minister Says the plane carrying Zelensky "almost was hit by a drone" as it took off from MoldovaZelensky was in Oslo for King Harald V's funeral
  8. Thu 10 Sep— no time published The Kremlin Denies that the plane was threatened by any drone
Every time here comes from a single report, quoting the Moldovan government and the Romanian defence ministry. No other report we hold gives any time at all.
Sources HotNews.ro
Centre estimate · not a score
HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent Ce spune Chișinăul despre avionul lui Zelenski, care „aproape a fost lovit” de o dronă Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at HotNews.ro → What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Digi24
Centre estimate · not a score
Digi24 🇷🇴RO · TV/radio · independent Prima reacție a Kremlinului privind incidentul cu avionul lui Zelenski, care risca să fie lovit de o dronă rusă în Republica Moldova Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Digi24 → What we have measured A judgement of the Union quoted in the headline the premier's verdict on the Union printed as the headline claim ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the attackers were separate from the shepherds ×1Asserted vs attributed States flat that the document is fake; another report sources this to the Order's ambassador ×1Attributed, not asserted Russia's account of where the strike happened is given to the Kremlin, with the news agency chain named ×1 from 5389 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
How the three reports handle the near missChart
A count of what the three reports we hold do with one claim. It is not a judgement of any outlet.
Sources Digi24
Centre estimate · not a score
Digi24 🇷🇴RO · TV/radio · independent Prima reacție a Kremlinului privind incidentul cu avionul lui Zelenski, care risca să fie lovit de o dronă rusă în Republica Moldova Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Digi24 → What we have measured A judgement of the Union quoted in the headline the premier's verdict on the Union printed as the headline claim ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the attackers were separate from the shepherds ×1Asserted vs attributed States flat that the document is fake; another report sources this to the Order's ambassador ×1Attributed, not asserted Russia's account of where the strike happened is given to the Kremlin, with the news agency chain named ×1 from 5389 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → HotNews.ro
Centre estimate · not a score
HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent Ce spune Chișinăul despre avionul lui Zelenski, care „aproape a fost lovit” de o dronă Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at HotNews.ro → What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → P Público
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Público 🇵🇹PT · newspaper · independent Ataque russo contra centro comercial em Sumi faz dois mortos e 20 feridos Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Público → What we have measured Anyone hurt The only report carrying casualties gives a count and no names ×1Asserted or attributed the Saudi account arrives as a confirmation, not a claim ×1Casualties stated flat, unnamed the same two deaths are stated without source and without who killed them ×1Flat context The same Iran link is stated flat, with no source ×1 from 3295 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

Who is made to say the plane was nearly hit

One report puts the near-miss in the Norwegian prime minister's mouth and inside quotation marks. One opens on the Kremlin's denial and never quotes the claim being denied. One states it flat, in a subordinate clause, with no source attached.

1 reports naming who made the claim 1 reports leading on the denial 1 reports stating the near-miss with no source

One report does the clock, none does the names

A single report carries times, a crash site and two distances; the other two carry no time and no place. Where a launcher is named, it is a capital rather than a force or a unit. The two people killed at the shopping centre are counted; no report we hold names them.

1 reports giving a clock time 1 reports giving a distance in kilometres 0 reports naming anyone killed
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources Digi24
Centre estimate · not a score
Digi24 🇷🇴RO · TV/radio · independent Prima reacție a Kremlinului privind incidentul cu avionul lui Zelenski, care risca să fie lovit de o dronă rusă în Republica Moldova Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Digi24 → What we have measured A judgement of the Union quoted in the headline the premier's verdict on the Union printed as the headline claim ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the attackers were separate from the shepherds ×1Asserted vs attributed States flat that the document is fake; another report sources this to the Order's ambassador ×1Attributed, not asserted Russia's account of where the strike happened is given to the Kremlin, with the news agency chain named ×1 from 5389 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → HotNews.ro
Centre estimate · not a score
HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent Ce spune Chișinăul despre avionul lui Zelenski, care „aproape a fost lovit” de o dronă Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at HotNews.ro → What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → P Público
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Público 🇵🇹PT · newspaper · independent Ataque russo contra centro comercial em Sumi faz dois mortos e 20 feridos Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Público → What we have measured Anyone hurt The only report carrying casualties gives a count and no names ×1Asserted or attributed the Saudi account arrives as a confirmation, not a claim ×1Casualties stated flat, unnamed the same two deaths are stated without source and without who killed them ×1Flat context The same Iran link is stated flat, with no source ×1 from 3295 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

disputed A drone came close to hitting the plane carrying Volodymyr Zelensky as it took off from Moldova for Oslo.
HotNews.ro attributes the "almost hit" wording to Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Público repeats the near miss without naming a source, while Digi24 reports the Kremlin denying on Thursday that the plane was threatened by any drone. No report we hold offers radar data or a flight track that would settle which account is right.
Checked against 3 sources:
HotNews.ro
Centre estimate · not a score
HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent Ce spune Chișinăul despre avionul lui Zelenski, care „aproape a fost lovit” de o dronă Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at HotNews.ro → What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → P Público
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Público 🇵🇹PT · newspaper · independent Ataque russo contra centro comercial em Sumi faz dois mortos e 20 feridos Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Público → What we have measured Anyone hurt The only report carrying casualties gives a count and no names ×1Asserted or attributed the Saudi account arrives as a confirmation, not a claim ×1Casualties stated flat, unnamed the same two deaths are stated without source and without who killed them ×1Flat context The same Iran link is stated flat, with no source ×1 from 3295 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Digi24
Centre estimate · not a score
Digi24 🇷🇴RO · TV/radio · independent Prima reacție a Kremlinului privind incidentul cu avionul lui Zelenski, care risca să fie lovit de o dronă rusă în Republica Moldova Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Digi24 → What we have measured A judgement of the Union quoted in the headline the premier's verdict on the Union printed as the headline claim ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the attackers were separate from the shepherds ×1Asserted vs attributed States flat that the document is fake; another report sources this to the Order's ambassador ×1Attributed, not asserted Russia's account of where the strike happened is given to the Kremlin, with the news agency chain named ×1 from 5389 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified Moldova closed its airspace on the afternoon of 8 September after detecting an unauthorised Russian drone, and Zelensky's plane took off late for that reason.
Only HotNews.ro carries this, quoting a Moldovan government spokesperson who says the airspace shut after 16:30, three departures and four arrivals were delayed, and the drone was confirmed to have exploded on the ground near Mihăilenii Vechi, about 160 km from Chișinău airport. No other report we hold mentions the closure, and none contradicts it.
Checked against 1 source:
HotNews.ro
Centre estimate · not a score
HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent Ce spune Chișinăul despre avionul lui Zelenski, care „aproape a fost lovit” de o dronă Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at HotNews.ro → What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified The drone was a Russian Shahed that crossed Romanian as well as Moldovan airspace, prompting Romania to scramble two fighter jets.
HotNews.ro is the only report we hold on this, and it rests on an unnamed source speaking to The Kyiv Independent for the Shahed identification plus a Romanian defence ministry statement on the radar track near Roman, the RO-Alert messages in five counties and the jets sent up. The type and the operator are attributed to one anonymous account, not corroborated.
Checked against 1 source:
HotNews.ro
Centre estimate · not a score
HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent Ce spune Chișinăul despre avionul lui Zelenski, care „aproape a fost lovit” de o dronă Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at HotNews.ro → What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

C Cristina Sava Digi24
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Attribution and dating names the prosecutors, the day they confirmed it, the day it was found and the village; describes the warhead as fragmentation×1
Causal framing The headline casts Lithuania's step as the cause of Moscow's reaction.×1
Cause passed on as a claim Moscow's explanation headlined, in quotation marks×1
Claim carried without a figure the affordability claim is quoted in the headline with no cost, no offset and no total anywhere in the text×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 misleading1 disputed4 unverified4 true
From 193 reports we hold under this byline, at Digi24. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
C Cristina Stoian HotNews.ro
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Asserted vs attributed The near-miss is put in the Norwegian prime minister's mouth and kept inside quotation marks×1
Hedged or stated the drone's origin is doubly hedged and sourced to an unnamed source×1
Lead chosen the report leads with memes, not the vote×1
Loaded word Kyiv's statement is called threats; Moscow's is called a reply×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 disputed3 unverified4 true
From 175 reports we hold under this byline, at HotNews.ro. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
The bylines on the reports this story is built from. Hover one for what our passes have measured on their reporting. · 1 report we hold carries no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

Digi24
Centre estimate · not a score
Digi24 🇷🇴RO · TV/radio · independent Prima reacție a Kremlinului privind incidentul cu avionul lui Zelenski, care risca să fie lovit de o dronă rusă în Republica Moldova Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Digi24 → What we have measured A judgement of the Union quoted in the headline the premier's verdict on the Union printed as the headline claim ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the attackers were separate from the shepherds ×1Asserted vs attributed States flat that the document is fake; another report sources this to the Order's ambassador ×1Attributed, not asserted Russia's account of where the strike happened is given to the Kremlin, with the news agency chain named ×1 from 5389 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The only report we hold that carries Moscow's answer: the Kremlin denied on Thursday that the plane was threatened by a drone — and it never quotes the claim it is denying.
Prima reacție a Kremlinului privind incidentul cu avionul lui Zelenski, care risca să fie lovit de o dronă rusă în Republica Moldova Data actualizării: 10.09.2026 16:17 Data publicării: 10.09.2026 15:55 Foto: Profimedia Images Urmărește Digi24 în Google Discover Adaugă Digi24 ca sursă preferată în Google Kremlinul a negat, joi, că avionul preşedintelui ucrainean Volodimir Zelenski a fost ameninţat de o dronă după ce a decolat marţi din Republica Moldova cu destinaţia Oslo, unde Zelenski s-a deplasat pentru a participa la funeraliile regelui Harald al V-lea al Norvegiei şi pentru a avea cu guve
Whose voice leads: Opens on the denial; the Norwegian claim it denies is never quoted in the report — “Kremlinul a negat, joi, că avionul preşedintelui ucrainean Volodimir Zelenski a fost ameninţat de o dronă după ce a decolat marţi din Republica Moldova cu destinaţia Oslo”
Whose account leads: opens on the denial, not the claim it denies — “Kremlinul a negat, joi, că avionul preşedintelui ucrainean Volodimir Zelenski a fost ameninţat de o dronă”
Who is named as acting: the actor is a drone; no state is named as sending it — “a fost ameninţat de o dronă după ce a decolat marţi din Republica Moldova cu destinaţia Oslo”
Read it at Digi24 → https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/externe/prima-reactie-a-kremlinului-privind…
P Público
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Público 🇵🇹PT · newspaper · independent Ataque russo contra centro comercial em Sumi faz dois mortos e 20 feridos Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Público → What we have measured Anyone hurt The only report carrying casualties gives a count and no names ×1Asserted or attributed the Saudi account arrives as a confirmation, not a claim ×1Casualties stated flat, unnamed the same two deaths are stated without source and without who killed them ×1Flat context The same Iran link is stated flat, with no source ×1 from 3295 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
Files the near miss as a single tail sentence under a report on a strike on a shopping centre in Sumy that it says killed two and injured 20 — the only casualties any of these three reports count, and nobody is named.
Moscovo prossegue com a campanha de ataques aéreos contra o território ucraniano. Avião de Zelensky esteve perto de ser atingido por um drone na Moldova.
Who is named as acting: Names a capital as the actor and states the air campaign flat, with no attribution — “Moscovo prossegue com a campanha de ataques aéreos contra o território ucraniano.”
Anyone hurt: The only report carrying casualties gives a count and no names — “Ataque russo contra centro comercial em Sumi faz dois mortos e 20 feridos”
Who is named as acting: names the capital as the actor, flat, no attribution — “Moscovo prossegue com a campanha de ataques aéreos contra o território ucraniano.”
Named or counted: the dead and hurt are a figure; nobody is named — “Ataque russo contra centro comercial em Sumi faz dois mortos e 20 feridos”
Read it at Público → https://www.publico.pt/2026/09/10/mundo/noticia/ataque-russo-centro-com…
HotNews.ro
Centre estimate · not a score
HotNews.ro 🇷🇴RO · digital · independent Ce spune Chișinăul despre avionul lui Zelenski, care „aproape a fost lovit” de o dronă Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at HotNews.ro → What we have measured Accusation unanswered AUR's claim of a plan agreed between the president and PSD runs in the headline and lede. No reply from the president is carried. ×1Actor named Names the blocs that refuse any exemption ×1Anonymous sourcing The jamming device found in his car rests on unnamed judicial sources, relayed through a news agency. ×1Asserted not attributed the outcome is declared settled before voting opens ×1 from 4469 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The only report with a clock: Moldova's government on the 16:30 closure and the crash site 160 km from Chișinău, Romania's defence ministry on the radar track, the two fighter jets and the alerts in five counties, and
Președintele ucrainean Volodimir Zelenski, în timpul unei conferințe de presă. FOTO: Tom Nicholson, PA Images / Alamy / Profimedia Actualitate Ce spune Chișinăul despre avionul lui Zelenski, care „aproape a fost lovit” de o dronă Cristina Stoian Publicat 10.09.2026 14:30 · Actualizat 10.09.2026 14:31 Adaugă-ne ca sursă preferată în Google Urmărește-ne în Google Discover Avionul care îl transporta pe președintele Zelenski spre Oslo „aproape a fost lovit de o dronă” în timp ce decola din Republica Moldova, a anunțat, miercuri, premierul norvegian Jonas Gahr Store. Chișinăul a oferit explicații.
Asserted vs attributed: The near-miss is put in the Norwegian prime minister's mouth and kept inside quotation marks — “„aproape a fost lovit de o dronă” în timp ce decola din Republica Moldova, a anunțat, miercuri, premierul norvegian Jonas Gahr Store.”
What is hedged: Russian make of the drone rests on an unnamed source and a double hedge — “a declarat o sursă pentru The Kyiv Independent, menționând că se crede că aparatul de zbor era unul rusesc, de tip Shahed”
Who is named as acting: In the Moldovan government's account the airspace closes itself and the drone enters alone; nobody is named as launching it — “Spaţiul aerian al Republicii Moldova a fost închis în după-amiaza zilei de 8 septembrie, după ora 16:30, în urma depistării unei drone ruseşti care a pătruns neautorizat dinspre Ucraina”
Hedged or stated: the drone's origin is doubly hedged and sourced to an unnamed source — “menționând că se crede că aparatul de zbor era unul rusesc, de tip Shahed”
Which measure was chosen: the harm counted is delayed aircraft, not people — “Măsura a cauzat întârzierea a trei nave la decolare şi a patru la aterizare”
Read it at HotNews.ro → https://hotnews.ro/ce-spune-chisinaul-despre-avionul-lui-zelenski-care-…
Checked, didn’t cover
D De Telegraaf
Centre-right estimate · not a score
De Telegraaf 🇳🇱NL · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and aged, and his not-guilty plea is carried ×1Accused's voice carries the not-guilty plea and names the accused ×1Actor named Authorities named as the ones who made the arrests ×1Asserted vs attributed 'blackmail' stated flat, with no source and no named state that applied it ×1 from 10020 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → D De Standaard
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De Standaard 🇧🇪BE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting on the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted vs attributed states sabotage flat, with no source ×1Asserted vs attributed states flat, with no source, that the officers were wrong to suspect him ×1Attribution The whole arrest is sourced second-hand to other media. ×1 from 4325 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Deník N
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Deník N 🇨🇿CZ · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named The headline names speculators as the actors who evicted a grandmother, stated flat. ×1Asserted, and a government judged A wave of Russian state terrorism is stated as fact and Germany is rated on its response; the piece is labelled a comment ×1Asserted, not attributed Washington's refusal and its reasoning stated flat, with no source ×1Assessment stated flat Says in its own voice, with no source, that Russian air defence worked well. ×1 from 1266 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → El Mundo
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El Mundo 🇪🇸ES · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named The dispute is between named Spanish officials over who was warned. There is no figure of Moroccan personnel. ×1Actor named The dispute is between named officials, and the report carries no figure. ×1Asserted, not attributed defiance of a named president is stated flat as what the meeting was ×1Asserted not attributed States Moscow's own reason, retaliation, as fact ×1 from 4700 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Brussels Signal
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Brussels Signal 🇧🇪BE · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed cause and effect on services asserted in the reporter's voice, no figure attached ×1Asserted vs attributed States record diesel prices flat, with no source; another report says there is no shortage ×1Asserted vs attributed The figure of 72 is stated flat, with no named source or document. The report's own inference is 'significant infiltration'. ×1Asserted vs attributed record diesel prices stated flat, with no figure and no source ×1 from 674 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Dagens Nyheter
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Dagens Nyheter 🇸🇪SE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accused label flat accused is labelled far-right without attribution, and not named ×1Affected counted Only report to count the residents affected ×1Asserted or attributed the majority stated flat, with nobody credited for the count ×1Asserted or attributed the demand is written as the report's own flat sentence before it is attributed to anyone ×1 from 3487 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Efimerida ton Syntakton
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Efimerida ton Syntakton 🇬🇷GR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Adjective without figure Calls the war bloody but gives no count ×1Anyone hurt named the only report we hold that names one of the dead ×1Anyone hurt named the only report we hold that names a person who died ×1Asserted not attributed Calls the move 'unprecedented' in its own voice ×1 from 8180 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Der Standard
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Der Standard 🇦🇹AT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named NATO is named as acting; it 'foiled' the manoeuvre ×1Actor named dead uncounted The US is named as the attacker and stated flat, but the dead schoolchildren are neither counted nor named ×1Actors left unnamed the three requesting states are counted, never named ×1Aim attributed and quoted the stated aim is in quotation marks and marked as the service's account ×1 from 7330 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Observador
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Observador 🇵🇹PT · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusation attributed The fuel retailers' charge is attributed, 'accuses'. No government response is carried. ×1Affected person unnamed the woman is not named, and no cause of the eviction is given ×1Analyst verdict as headline one commentator's judgement on European mood is the headline ×1Asserted or attributed the charge against two foreign states is carried as the prime minister's view, not the report's ×1 from 9741 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Telex
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Telex 🇭🇺HU · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor framed as giving The headline makes the government the actor, and what it does is support drivers. ×1Actor named NATO is named as acting; it 'chased them off' ×1Adopted term Uses the government's own phrase 'targeted support' without quotation marks ×1Asserted vs attributed 'under cover of night' attributed to Mária Schmidt, with the ministry's 8pm set beside it ×1 from 3231 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Welt
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Welt 🇩🇪DE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named The protests named as the cause of both the arrests and the injuries ×1Actor unnamed The party figure calling for a confidence vote is given only by title. ×1Age band without a share the winner's strength among the youngest voters is claimed with no percentage ×1Asserted flat The 'existential crisis' is stated as fact, not attributed to anyone. ×1 from 7442 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Frankfurter Allgemeine
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Frankfurter Allgemeine 🇩🇪DE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor label The Houthis are called a militia and are cast only as the threat ships need protecting from. ×1With no actor named critics 'After criticism', with no one named as the critic. ×1Anyone hurt counted gives an injury figure, attributed to the ministry, but does not say who was hurt or by whom ×1Asserted flat the report judges the offer vague in its own voice, unattributed ×1 from 8701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Rzeczpospolita
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Rzeczpospolita 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accountability The only report to say prosecutors are investigating ×1Asserted not attributed Hungary's need for more time is stated as fact, not as the government's claim ×1Claim asserted flat says EU law has never known such an offer, with no lawyer, official or text cited ×1Correction carried the correction is in the lede, attributed to Lithuania ×1 from 5701 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Magyar Nemzet
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Magyar Nemzet 🇭🇺HU · newspaper · party-aligned No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusers named as participants The headline names two current accusers as having taken part in the concession. ×1Aside aimed at one figure the handover is framed as reading homework for the opposition leader who asked for it ×1Asserted, not attributed The motive is stated in the report's own voice, hedged only by a rhetorical formula rather than by a source. ×1Asserted not attributed a contested motive is the entire lede, with no source for it ×1 from 2932 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Le Figaro
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Le Figaro 🇫🇷FR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted, not attributed the capture of the strait and a "lightning offensive" are stated flat, with no source and no date ×1Asserted vs attributed The mayor's account and his opponents' charge are both attributed. ×1Asserted vs attributed The capture of the strait is stated flat, as settled background to a different story, with no source and no date for the claim. ×1Attacker identified by nationality in the headline ×1 from 7685 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Politico Europe
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Politico Europe 🇧🇪BE · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named vaguely The opponents are 'other capitals', with no country named ×1With no actor named accusation The coup accusation is in the passive; the accuser is not named ×1Asserted vs attributed The contradiction is stated as fact by the report, sourced only to unspecified official notes ×1Asserted vs attributed the stall stated flat in the headline, with Athens named as the actor that rejected ×1 from 1192 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → iDNES.cz / MF DNES
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iDNES.cz / MF DNES 🇨🇿CZ · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed The cause and the forecast are both attributed to the bank's own statement ×1Asserted vs attributed The headline attributes the charge that Putin ordered the rules of war dropped to Zelensky ×1Attributed The facts are attributed to the Polish army in the lead sentence ×1Attributed the bridge damage is sourced to Kyiv's mayor on Telegram ×1 from 4739 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → NOS
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NOS 🇳🇱NL · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor label The backers are labelled politically; the opponents, all other major parties, get no label ×1Actor named Names the Supreme Court as the court that withdrew the warrant. ×1Actor named and attributed Construction workers are named as having damaged a cable by accident, and the report attributes this to the aviation regulator. ×1Actor named, in passive Israeli airstrikes are named as what destroyed the building, but the sentence puts the building first ×1 from 2340 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Svenska Dagbladet
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Svenska Dagbladet 🇸🇪SE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Attributed context The Iran link is hedged and credited to another newspaper ×1Hedged context Base's use for strikes on Iran is hedged and attributed to another paper ×1Hedged or flat a directional claim about the race stated flat, with no poll figure behind it ×1Loss stated flat, size not given a large loss asserted with no figure, and a coalition demand named in the same line ×1 from 3297 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Gazeta Wyborcza
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Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱PL · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1 from 1246 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Silence is recorded, not inferred — each of these was read when we built this story and carried nothing on this event.
We could not read these
ABC
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ABC 🇪🇸ES · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Figure chosen 80,000, stated flat and unsourced; every other report we hold says about 70,000 ×1Figure chosen 80,000 crossed, stated flat, no source for the number ×1How hard the claim is stated Calls it an invasion in the outlet's own voice, unattributed, inside a sentence about the judge. ×1Which figure is used same two days, no figure at all: thousands ×1 from 225 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Corriere della Sera
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Corriere della Sera 🇮🇹IT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Kathimerini
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Kathimerini 🇬🇷GR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Anyone hurt counted, not named the same first witness, identified by his job and as one of 57 ×1What is counted the only report that counts how many defendants actually turned up ×1Whose voice is quoted the only defendant's words we hold, three words, unrebutted and unexplained ×1Word for the event rail accident, and without the article, further loosening it from the case ×1 from 115 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Le Soir
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Le Soir 🇧🇪BE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Die Presse
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Die Presse 🇦🇹AT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Who is named as acting Calls the party right and its people the far right in the outlet's own voice; three reports use only its name. ×1 from 70 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Il Giornale
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Il Giornale 🇮🇹IT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Euractiv
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Euractiv 🇧🇪BE · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Measure chosen the only report we hold that breaks the result down by voters' age ×1Measure chosen the only report we hold that publishes how the age groups split ×1Which figure is used about 80,000 stated flat and unsourced — an order of magnitude above every other figure we hold ×1Which figure is used Puts 80,000 across the border in two days with no source for the figure and nobody attributed for it. ×1 from 41 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Le Monde
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Le Monde 🇫🇷FR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Anyone hurt named or counted the only death toll we hold; a round number, hedged, nobody named ×1Anyone hurt named or counted the only report we hold that gives a death toll; it counts, does not name ×1Who says the label flat in the headline, no source, no hedge ×1 from 42 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → El País
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El País 🇪🇸ES · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Figure chosen more than 70,000 crossed, the higher figure not mentioned ×1Word for the event invasion, in quote marks and put in a party leader's mouth ×1Word for the event, attributed same word, but in quotation marks and inside a politician's accusation ×1 from 144 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → la Repubblica
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la Repubblica 🇮🇹IT · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Süddeutsche Zeitung 🇩🇪DE · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Hedged or stated states flat that police do not know whether the person seen is the man they want ×1Suspect identified how age and home town only, and the sabotage is what police attribute, not what the report asserts ×1 from 257 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
These are must-cite outlets for this desk that we did not manage to read when we built this story. That is a gap in our reach, not a silence on their part, and it is not evidence of anything about this story.

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