NATO jets shoot down drone in Latvian airspace: ministry
NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace, the country's defense ministry confirmed on Aug. 14, followed by an announcement from the military.
The interception came against a backdrop of heightened concern in Europe over unauthorised drone activity, as the Russia-Ukraine war grinds on more than four years.
NATO "fighter jets have successfully shot down a foreign unmanned aerial vehicle that had entered Latvia as a result of Russian electromagnetic warfare," the ministry wrote on X.
The threat had ended, the armed forces said in a post on X, adding that allied fighter jets successfully destroyed the unmanned aerial vehicle that entered the NATO member state's airspace.
