{"id":810041,"date":"2026-05-20T14:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/810041\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:42:18","slug":"russian-army-preparing-appropriate-response-after-latvia-accused-of-hosting-ukrainian-drones-kremlin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/810041\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Army Preparing \u2018Appropriate\u2019 Response After Latvia Accused of Hosting Ukrainian Drones, Kremlin Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia\u2019s military is preparing an \u201cappropriate\u201d response to Ukraine\u2019s alleged use of Baltic territory to launch drone attacks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis problem exists, and our relevant services, primarily the military in this case, are closely monitoring the situation and formulating our country\u2019s necessary response,\u201d Peskov told<\/a> the pro-Kremlin tabloid Izvestia, though he did not specify the scope of the measures.<\/p>\n

The warning comes a day after Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) on Tuesday threatened<\/a> Latvia, stating its NATO membership would not \u201cprotect\u201d it from Moscow\u2019s retaliation for Riga allegedly allowing Ukraine to fire drones from inside its borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Latvia\u2019s foreign minister accused the SVR of running a disinformation campaign amid an internal political crisis triggered by Ukrainian drones straying into Latvian airspace and crashing.<\/p>\n

U.S. Deputy Representative to the UN Tammy Bruce said<\/a> that \u201cthere is no place for threats\u201d against Latvia, assuring member states that Washington \u201ckeeps all of its NATO commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on Tuesday, Estonia\u2019s defense ministry said a NATO jet shot down a Ukrainian drone after it entered Estonian airspace, marking the first such interception in the Baltics since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

NATO\u2019s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, American General Alexus Grynkewich, said<\/a> that the downing disproved Russia\u2019s claim that Ukraine was launching drones from within the borders of the military alliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we were allowing drones to go through Baltic airspace in order to get to Russia, we wouldn\u2019t be shooting them down,\u201d Grynkewich said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a drone alert issued<\/a> by Lithuania\u2019s defense ministry on Wednesday brought transportation in parts of the country to a standstill and forced residents of the capital, Vilnius, into underground shelters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The alert, which was later lifted, marked the first time since the 2022 invasion that such a warning applied to both Lithuanian political leaders and the general public.<\/p>\n

Air alerts have become increasingly common in the Baltic states due to intensified Ukrainian strikes targeting Russian sites in the nearby Leningrad region and St. Petersburg. Several Ukrainian drones have crashed in the three Baltic states in recent months.<\/p>\n

Tensions have been further aggravated<\/a> after Lithuania\u2019s foreign minister said<\/a> this week that NATO has the means to \u201clevel\u201d Russian air defense and missile bases in the western exclave of Kaliningrad in the event of an open conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s military is preparing an \u201cappropriate\u201d response to Ukraine\u2019s alleged use of Baltic territory to launch drone attacks,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":810042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[128090,5755,14611,50,103],"class_list":["post-810041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-baltics","tag-drones","tag-lithuania","tag-news","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116607434614739547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}