Romanian jet shoots down what’s believed to have been a Ukrainian drone over Estonia
Estonia says the drone was likely Ukrainian and entered under heavy Russian electronic warfare, prompting NATO to shoot it down.
- On Tuesday, a Romanian Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a suspected Ukrainian drone over Estonia, marking the first time a NATO fighter intercepted an intruding drone in Baltic airspace.
- Officials stated that Russian electronic warfare measures deflected drones into the airspace of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, occurring amid frequent Ukrainian long-range drone attacks on Russian military infrastructure.
- Finnish authorities warned of suspected drone activity near Helsinki on May 15, while the Latvian government resigned last week over its handling of similar airspace violations and neighbouring Latvia summoned NATO Baltic Air Police.
- Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur confirmed the incident, stating, "We share airspace surveillance with Latvia and Lithuania," while Marko Mihkelson, chair of the Estonian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, identified the target as a Ukrainian drone.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said last week that Ukraine would send experts to Latvia to help protect the country's skies, as several Ukrainian drones have strayed into NATO members' airspace bordering Russia since March.
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Ukrainian military drone shot down over NATO country, prompting apologies
Ukrainian military hardware appears to have once again endangered the people of a NATO member nation. Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced on Tuesday that "a drone entering Estonian airspace was detected quickly and shot down over Southern Estonia by a NATO Air Policing fighter jet."'These trajectories have to be as far from the NATO territory as possible.'Michal thanked Estonia's "NATO allies, the Romanian Air Force, and the fighter…
Russia accuses the Baltic states of supporting Ukrainian drone attacks. It threatens with retaliation. However, the three EU and NATO countries cannot be intimidated - on the contrary. Between Russia and the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania the tensions are intensifying. The triggers are the painful Ukrainian drone attacks on the northwest of Russia - Moscow gives the Baltics a co-inflict. On the other hand, Ukrainian drones repeatedl…
A Ukrainian military drone was shot down by a NATO fighter after entering Estonian airspace in an incident marked by alleged electronic interference and falsification of the GPS signal attributed to...
A Ukrainian military drone, deviated according to Kyiv by the Russian electronic war, was shot dead over Estonia by a NATO F-16. The incident, unprecedented, illustrates the risk of overrunning the Ukrainian conflict...
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