Missile debris was found in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region today, following overnight Russian missile strikes in the neighboring Ukrainian province of Odesa, an official said.

Oleg Belyakov, co-head of a special commission overseeing security in this pro-Russian breakaway region, said police, engineers and army observers were at the site in the village of Chitsani, about 35 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

Belyakov reported that an explosion was heard and part of an S-300 missile fell into a garden near a private house, but no damage was caused.

“The warhead of the S-300 missile is in the garden,” the official told reporters, stressing that it was a 1968 model S-300 missile.

It was not immediately clear who fired the missile.

The S-300 long-range surface-to-air missile system was developed by the Soviet Union, and such missiles are used by both Russia and Ukraine in the war.

Moldovan authorities have reported at least four times that they have found missile debris in northern parts of the country since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022 and since Moscow has stepped up missile and drone attacks in the southern Ukrainian province of Odesa .