Latvian military experts said on Friday, May 22, that artificial intelligence (AI) and Russian electronic warfare (EW) systems may explain why Ukrainian drones recently crashed in the same location in eastern Latvia. According to Latvian public broadcaster LSM, two drones crashed near an oil facility in the city of Rēzekne on May 7 and May 8 after apparently deviating from their original flight paths.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The incidents raised questions in Latvia over whether the drones mistakenly identified the same location as a target. “There are early forms of artificial intelligence in long-range drones,” Modris Kairišs, head of Latvia’s National Armed Forces Autonomous Systems Competence Center, told LSM. “They search for targets pre-programmed into them. It is possible the drone struck oil terminal barrels visually similar to targets inside Russia,” he added. However, Latvian officials said there is currently no direct confirmation explaining why both drones crashed in nearly the same place. Russia accused of redirecting Ukrainian drones According to LSM, Ukrainian drones entering Baltic airspace are likely “victims” of Russian EW systems designed to interfere with satellite navigation signals. GPS works by triangulating the time it takes signals to travel between the satellite and the device, giving the drone an external reference point to adjust its flight path accordingly. Experts said Russia uses both GPS jamming and “spoofing,” which involves providing false satellite time-stamp signals to gradually alter their trajectory without triggering autopilot corrections.