Estonia’s defence minister Hanno Pevkur confirmed the news to the Estonian news website Delfi and also the public broadcaster, ERRThe latest drone alerts come as Ukraine and Latvia were this morning forced by Russia to repeatedly refute Moscow’s claims that Kyiv was preparing attacks against Russia from Latvia.Ukraine’s foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed that Ukraine does not use the territory of Latvia for its operations against Russia and
Meanwhile, we are getting a line from Estonia that Nato’s Baltic Air Policing fighter jets shot down a drone that appeared in the Estonian airspace.
The drone was shot down over Lake Vörtsjärv in southern Estonia.
Estonia’s defence minister Hanno Pevkur confirmed the news to the Estonian news website Delfi and the public broadcaster, ERR.
He said it was most likely a Ukrainian drone aimed at targets in north western Russia - with hits reported in the area this morning – that had its systems jammed and strayed into the wrong direction.
This theory was also separately confirmed by the chair of the foreign affairs committee in the Estonian parliament, Marko Mihkelson .
Estonian prime minister Kristen Michal was reported to have confirmed the news to the Estonian parliament, saying that the shooting down shows that “I guess we can still handle things.” No civilian casualties or damage was reported.
Around midday local time, both Estonia and Latvia issued drone alerts for parts of its territory.
Latvia again reiterated its alerts in the last few minutes , with train and language exams reported as disrupted as a result of the warning.
Worth remembering that several Baltic and Nordic Nato member states reported stray drone incursions in recent months as the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine continues, with the Latvian government collapsing last week over its response to one of these incidents.
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