Rocket Explosions in Ukraine Spotted From Plane 36,000 Feet in Air

A video circulating on social media Friday reportedly shows blasts from Russian attacks in Ukraine visible from a plane flying in neighboring Moldova.

The Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security, a Ukrainian government organization that is under the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, was one of several accounts that shared the video on Twitter. Showing the view from a plane window, what appears to be several large clouds of smoke can be seen in the distance.

"This is how explosions in Ukraine look from a plane window in Moldova," the video's caption read.

It attributed the footage to a journalist with Fakty ICTV, a Ukrainian and world news channel and website. Fakty ICTV also shared the video on its own Facebook page on Friday.

Cruising altitude for planes is typically around 35,000 or 36,000 feet, Travel + Leisure reported. This means that Russian attacks in Ukraine could be visible from the neighboring country of Moldova, as well as from tens of thousands of feet in the air, although the plane's exact altitude above Moldova at the moment the video was taken is unconfirmed.

Russia carried out its newest wave of attacks against Ukraine on Friday, with the Strategic Communications Directorate of the Office of the Chief of Defense of Ukraine's Armed Forces preliminarily reporting 76 Russian missile launches. Of these missiles, 72 were cruise missiles and four were air-guided missiles. Ukrainian air defense forces were able to shoot down 70 of these Russian missiles, according to the directorate, but this does not mean that Russia's barrage failed to have any impact.

The missile strikes reportedly targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and other parts of the country, and, similar to its previous rocket barrages, continued to take aim at Ukraine's power and energy infrastructure.

Ukraine's Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said on Facebook that "energy objects" in both eastern and southern Ukraine were damaged, and that there would be emergency power outages. Additionally, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office wrote on Telegram that emergency power outages were being introduced throughout the country in the wake of the Russian attacks.

The proximity of Friday's blasts may underscore concerns about the impact of the ongoing war in Ukraine on Moldova, a small, landlocked European country that shares a border with the war-torn nation.

Moldova's Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita said in an interview with CNN over the summer that her country was "very worried" about a potential Russian invasion, according to the Washington Post.

Newsweek reached out to Moldova's Defense Ministry for comment.