Amid high inflation, power-grid cuts and other pressures applied by Russia and spilling over from the war in Ukraine, Moldova’s government, which opposed the Russian invasion, collapsed Friday.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu announces the nomination of Dorin Recean as prime minister to form a new government, in Chisinau on Friday.  Aurel Obreja/Associated Press

Pro-Western Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita had been in office since 2021. On Friday, she named Dorin Recean – a former Cabinet member who also backs European Union membership for Moldova – to succeed her, subject to legislative approval. When Gavrilita took office, few foresaw “so many crises caused by Russian aggression in Ukraine,” she said in the resignation announcement, the BBC reported.

Earlier in the day, Moldova said a Russian missile crossed into its airspace while heading toward Ukraine, and the government summoned Russia’s ambassador to register the “unacceptable violation of our airspace.” It condemned the incursion and called on Russia to stop its “military aggression” against Ukraine.

Here’s the latest on the war and its impact across the globe:

• A Russian projectile came within “approximately 35 kilometers” of Romania’s border, the NATO country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement Friday, adding that it was “mostly likely a cruise missile” launched from a ship near the Crimean Peninsula. The projectile entered Ukrainian and then Moldovan airspace before reentering Ukraine, it said. A spokeswoman for NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, asked about a Ukrainian allegation that the projectile had entered Romanian airspace, referred to the Romanian Defense Ministry’s statement.

• In Moscow, the Kremlin confirmed Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would deliver a high-profile address to the country’s Federal Assembly on Feb. 21. Under Russia’s constitution, Putin is expected to make the speech annually, but he skipped it last year. He is expected to mention the war in Ukraine, which Russia dubs a “special military operation,” as the anniversary of the invasion approaches.

• French President Emmanuel Macron said he has not ruled out sending fighter jets to Ukraine, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a rare trip to Brussels. Macron told European officials Friday: “I exclude absolutely nothing.” However, he said the focus should remain on artillery and other weapons that could boost Ukraine’s defenses in the near term. Zelensky has made several requests for fighter jets and other military equipment, but many Western allies have been reluctant to commit to providing warplanes for fear of escalating the conflict.

• Ukraine uses specific coordinates provided or confirmed by U.S. military personnel for the majority of its rocket strikes, The Washington Post reported. The disclosure reveals that the Pentagon is playing a more significant role in the war than previously known.

• The Pentagon is urging Congress to resume funding top-secret programs in Ukraine, current and former U.S. officials have told the Post. The programs were suspended ahead of Russia’s invasion last year and, if resumed, could allow U.S. Special Operations troops to employ Ukrainian operatives to observe Russian military movements and counter disinformation. Congressional officials say it is difficult to predict the outcome.

• Air raid alerts blared across eastern and central Ukraine on Friday. In the capital, Kyiv, the mayor urged citizens to seek shelter and reported some missile damage. The northeastern region of Kharkiv was also under attack Friday, said its governor, Oleh Synyehubov. He reported some injuries and damage to critical infrastructure that caused widespread power outages. A similar situation was reported early Friday in Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine, local officials said, citing Russian rocket attacks.

• Residents of eastern and southern Ukraine were warned of potential drone attacks Friday. Dnipropetrovsk military administrator Serhiy Lysak told people to stay away from critical infrastructure facilities, while the Mykolaiv governor, Vitaly Kim, issued an alert to watch out for drones overhead.

• Russia has begun an offensive in Luhansk centered on Kreminna, said the eastern region’s governor, Serhiy Haidai. “It’s possible to confirm that in principle a certain intensification has already begun, and it’s possible to say that de facto this is part of the full-scale offensive that Russia has planned,” he said in a video. Haidai added that the number of daily attacks “has increased,” and he accused Russian forces of “concentrating all their maximum efforts in the Kreminna direction.”

• Russia’s Wagner Group claims it has “completely stopped” recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine, according to a post on Telegram. The private military organization is run by a Putin ally and has been a key military force in the war. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, assessed that the group “will likely continue to recruit from prisons, albeit in a much more limited capacity.”

• Zelensky met with Poland’s president in Rzeszow, southeastern Poland, after his Brussels trip, according to a tweet from President Andrzej Duda’s office on Friday. The two men discussed the situation on the front lines, the need for joint military support and broader security in the region, it said.

• Elon Musk’s SpaceX accused Ukraine of using its satellite internet service, Starlink, to enable drone strikes. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said that Starlink “was never intended to be weaponized” and that it has been used in “ways that were not part of any agreement.” Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko tweeted in response that Starlink “saved hundreds of thousands of lives.” Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told The Washington Post that Kyiv was not worried – and that the idea that Ukraine relies solely on Starlink “does not correspond to reality at all.”