{"id":83050,"date":"2026-05-15T09:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:21:12","slug":"finland-warns-of-drone-scare-near-helsinki-fighter-jets-scrambled-flights-diverted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83050\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland warns of drone scare near Helsinki, fighter jets scrambled, flights diverted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Finland warned the public of drones possibly entering its airspace, for the first time near the capital city Helsinki, in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Flights were disrupted at the country\u2019s biggest airport, Helsinki-Vantaa, and about 1.8 million residents of southern Finland were told to remain indoors after overnight Ukrainian strikes on Russia near Finland prompted concern that unmanned aircraft had strayed into the country.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The emergency warning was issued at 3.49am local time and authorities said a drone was expected to be heading towards an area between Helsinki and Porvoo, home to assets including Neste Oyj\u2019s oil refinery on the south coast.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The alert was lifted at 7.06am.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Russian Ministry of Defence reported that 355 Ukrainian drones were shot down. The northernmost region mentioned in the drone report was the city of Pskov, which borders Estonia and Latvia but not Finland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A warning at a Helsinki tram stop on Friday about a possible drone attack. Photo: via Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/771a5ca7-3b0d-4faf-a9c9-2f31b81d970f_beb2c75a.jpg\" title=\"A warning at a Helsinki tram stop on Friday about a possible drone attack. Photo: via Reuters\"\/>A warning at a Helsinki tram stop on Friday about a possible drone attack. Photo: via Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Finland and the nearby Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia \u2060and Lithuania have seen a string of recent incidents where Ukrainian drones aimed at Russia have strayed \u200cinto their airspace, but it was not immediately known if Friday\u2019s incident was similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finland warned the public of drones possibly entering its airspace, for the first time near the capital city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[87],"tags":[45,167,158,113,169,171,238,241],"class_list":["post-83050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-helsinki","tag-drone","tag-estonia","tag-finland","tag-helsinki","tag-latvia","tag-lithuania","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116577860902756629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}