Fighter jets operating as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace on Aug. 14, according to the Latvian military.<\/p>\n
The “foreign unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)” entered Latvian airspace as a result of “Russian electromagnetic warfare,<\/a>” the military said in a statement. <\/p>\n The description suggested that the drone may have been a Ukrainian strike drone diverted off course by Russian air defenses.<\/p>\n The drone was intercepted<\/a> by NATO<\/a> fighter jets over the Balvi region in east Latvia. <\/p>\n “As long as Russia’s aggression in Ukraine continues, a recurrence of cases where foreign drones enter or approach Latvian airspace is possible,” the military added in the statement.<\/p>\n Ukrainian drones have frequently been diverted off course by Russian electronic warfare, creating tension between Ukraine and some of its most staunchest allies. \u00a0<\/p>\n On May 3, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after two suspected Ukrainian drone<\/a>s briefly entered Finnish airspace near the Russo-Finnish border during a Ukrainian drone strike against targets in Leningrad Oblast.<\/p>\n Orpo described such incidents as “unacceptable,” while pointing out that Finland “supports Ukraine and understands its right to defend itself.”<\/p>\n