NATO fighter jets shot down a foreign drone that entered Latvian airspace on Monday, marking the first time an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been intercepted over the Baltic country’s territory. Lithuanian broadcaster LRT, citing Latvia’s National Armed Forces, said an allied aircraft successfully destroyed the drone after it crossed into Latvia’s airspace in the eastern Latgale region.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The drone had entered Latvia’s airspace due to Russian electronic warfare activity. The Latvian military later confirmed that French fighter jets participating in NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission carried out the interception, while Lithuanian Armed Forces spokesperson Major Gintautas Ciunis said the jets had taken off from the Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania. Air alerts across several municipalities in eastern Latvia were triggered, with authorities declaring an air threat in the Kraslava and Ludza regions and warning of a possible threat in Rezekne and Balvi. “Take action! We inform you that a threat has emerged in Latvian airspace. Go indoors and follow the two-wall principle,” Latvia’s military said in an emergency alert sent to residents during the incident. A similar incident took place in neighboring Estonia on May 19, when NATO jets downed a strayed drone over Estonian airspace for the first time in the country’s history. Emergency alerts issued across eastern Latvia Latvia uses a two-tier mobile alert system. A yellow alert serves as an informational warning requiring no immediate action, while an orange alert indicates a confirmed threat and instructs residents to take protective measures immediately.