The National Army detected a Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicle that traversed Moldova from Ukraine. The drone passed over Cetireni and Zagarancea, both in the Ungheni district, and exited toward Romania, where it triggered alerts in five counties. It crashed near Mihăileni Vechi, Rîșcani district.
Moldova has 13 industrial parks, but none in Ungheni. A pre-feasibility study for 'Ungheni Euro Parc', funded by the EU, targets a 40-hectare site in Zagarancea. Estimated project value: EUR 20 million.
Ungheni City Hall is adding one more vehicle each to routes 1 and 3 during the morning peak, and links the decision to the two mornings when mayor Vitalie Vrabie inspected urban transport on those routes, on 1 and 2 September. The longest gap between two buses drops from 23 to 16 minutes on route 1 and from 16 to 14 minutes on route 3, according to calculations by Triunghi.md based on the announced times. Below the announcement, a passenger asks for a service when classes end as well.
The athletes of the Ungheni Sports School won 17 medals — 8 gold, 3 silver and 6 bronze — at the international “Nicolae and Andrian Pascaru” freestyle wrestling tournament, hosted on Sunday, 9 August, by the village of Semeni in Zagarancea commune. The sixth edition of the children's and juniors' competition brought together athletes from five countries — the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia and the United States — and had a commemorative character. The tournament is organized by the Ungheni Sports School and the Zagarancea commune town hall, with the support of the Ungheni District Council.
The village's community page announced last week that the access to the post office, the library and the cultural centre had been surfaced with asphalt, thanking the commune hall, HelpAge Moldova and the District Council. The procurement documents show the rest: the Zagarancea commune hall put out to tender a road section with access to the village post office and cultural centre, three firms submitted bids, and the contract was awarded to SRL “Balt-Cons” with 344,000 lei excluding VAT, below the estimate of 403,000 — that is 412,000 lei including VAT. The stake is at the other end: in Zagarancea commune, one in five residents has reached retirement age.
The Boghenii Noi commune hall announced on 22 July that it had completed connecting the village of Boghenii Vechi to the water main, including the 'hill zone' — the hardest part to supply, because the water has to be pumped more than 200 metres higher than the source. The water comes from Zagarancea, from the Prut river, the same source that also supplies the town of Ungheni. In official statistics, the village shows a public water network only from 2025: 3.1 km and 59 connected dwellings. It is a small piece of a national process that, in 2024, delivered 507 of the 561 kilometres of new network precisely in villages.
Children from the commune of Zagarancea, Ungheni district, have won the second edition of the international youth tournament «Cupa Prieteniei» (the Friendship Cup), held between 29 June and 6 July in Montmorillon, France. FC Zagarancea beat the host team, UES Montmorillon, 3–2 in the final, repeating its win from the first edition in 2025. This is the second part of a story we told when the boys set off: a team gathered by teacher Sebastian Andriuța, which reached France through a Zagarancea–Putna–Montmorillon chain of twinnings.
The quarter-final bracket of the Ungheni district «MAGIRUS» Cup 2026 is complete: eight teams, four ties, each played over two legs, home and away. FC Barsa Ungheni, through on a bye as leader of the first half of Division B, meets FC Haiduc Bumbăta, winner of the tightest tie of round one. The other three quarter-finals: Sculeni – Zagarancea, Regina Maria Ungheni – Unirea Cetireni, and Speranța Semeni – Mănoilești.
FC Zagarancea, the team of a commune in Ungheni district, represents the Republic of Moldova on July 4 in Montmorillon, France, at the international youth tournament the “Friendship Cup” — alongside the French hosts, Romania and Ukraine. The boys, gathered by physical-education teacher Sebastian Andriuța, got there through a chain of town twinnings: Zagarancea twinned with Putna in January 2025, and Putna has been linked with Montmorillon since 2013. At the first edition, held last year in Putna itself, the team from Zagarancea won.
