{"id":11421,"date":"2026-03-30T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/11421\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:50:14","slug":"unidentified-drones-crash-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/11421\/","title":{"rendered":"Unidentified drones crash in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two unidentified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/drones\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drones<\/a> crashed near Kouvola in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/finland\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Finland<\/a> on Sunday, the defence ministry said, calling the incident a &#8220;suspected territorial violation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drones have strayed into Finland&#8217;s territory. We take this very seriously,&#8221; Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said in a statement, adding that security authorities had been sent to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Finland shares a 1,340-kilometre (830-mile) border with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russia<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nearby countries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/estonia\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Estonia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/latvia\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Latvia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/lithuania\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lithuania<\/a> earlier \u200bthis week \u200csaid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260325-estonia-and-latvia-say-they-were-hit-by-drones-as-ukraine-unleashes-massive-attack-on-russia\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">several Ukrainian drones had \u2060crashed on their territory<\/a> after going astray during attacks on Russian \u200coil export facilities on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/baltic-sea\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baltic Sea<\/a> coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20260304-from-ukraine-iran-kamikaze-drones-becoming-indispensable-modern-warfare\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From Ukraine to Iran, kamikaze drones are becoming indispensable to modern warfare<\/a><\/p>\n<p> &#8216;Low-flying slow objects&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation into the events is ongoing, and further details will be provided once the information has been verified,&#8221; Hakkanen said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, &#8220;a few low-flying slow objects were observed in Finnish airspace in the sea area and in southeastern Finland on Sunday morning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Watch more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20260313-made-in-uk-ukrainian-drone-company-opens-first-uk-plant-to-boost-production\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Made in UK: Ukrainian drone company to open first UK plant to boost production<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The air force sent up an F\/A-18 Hornet fighter on an identification mission, it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One drone has fallen to the ground north of Kouvola and another drone east of Kouvola. The police have cordoned off the areas for further investigation,&#8221; the defence ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with AFP and Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two unidentified drones crashed near Kouvola in southern Finland on Sunday, the defence ministry said, calling the incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7183,353,7115,591,5281,8,7938,9,2896,790,7,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-11421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-baltic-sea","9":"tag-drones","10":"tag-estonia","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-finland","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latvia","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-oil-and-gas-industry","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116318451975715482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}