NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace, the country’s defence ministry confirmed Friday, 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.
The EU and NATO member state of about 1.9 million inhabitants shares a border with Russia to the east.
