According to the National Armed Forces of Latvia, a drone entered Latvian airspace from Russia and exploded. It might have been Ukrainian, writes Delfi.
According to the National Armed Forces of Latvia, an unidentified object was detected by radars at 02:19 AM. An air defense group was dispatched for interception. After some time, early warning systems registered the sound of an explosion in the Kraslava region — approximately 13 kilometers from the border.
There were no casualties or damage to infrastructure.
Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa announced on TV3 that, according to preliminary estimates, the drone could have been Ukrainian.
«We are near the border and feel it. Similar incidents have occurred in Lithuania and Estonia. In Estonia, the drone even affected infrastructure, but no one was harmed there either,» Siliņa noted.
The head of government emphasized that Latvian defense systems worked properly and detected the threat in a timely manner.
Latvian Minister of Defense was in Kyiv at the time of the incident, he is urgently returning to Riga.
On March 23, a drone also flew into Lithuania, likely from Belarusian territory, and exploded 20 km from the border. Lithuanian radars did not detect it.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense suggested that it was a Ukrainian drone, one of those flying to attack targets in the Russian Federation, which veered off course under the influence of electronic warfare systems.
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