Latvia and Estonia confirm crash of Ukrainian drones
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics confirmed that a Ukrainian drone fell in the Kraslava region on Wednesday, March 25, while carrying out a mission to strike targets in Russia.
According to Ukrinform, Delfi stated this in an article.
"The drone was part of an operation coordinated by Ukraine against targets on Russian territory," Rinkevics said.
He added that he cannot rule out the possibility of similar incidents occurring again in the future.
The president stated that at this stage he does not consider it necessary to convene an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Council, and added that efforts to strengthen the country's air defense should continue.
Meanwhile, ERR reports that the Director General of Estonia's Internal Security Service (KaPo), Margo Palloson, said that on the night of Wednesday a Ukrainian drone, which had gone off course and had been affected in Russian airspace, crashed into a smokestack at the Auvere power plant.
Margo Palloson Photo: Jürgen Randma / Riigikantselei
"The main focus of KaPo is on the incident in Auvere. Today at 03:43, a drone entered Estonian airspace from Russia. About two kilometers from the border, it crashed into the Auvere smokestack, causing an explosion. This concerns a drone that went off course and was affected in Russian airspace. The debris shows it was a Ukrainian drone. No one was injured; we have opened a criminal investigation. We are studying the debris and details," Palloson said at a press conference.
As Ukrinform reported, Latvia's National Armed Forces recorded two foreign unmanned aerial vehicles entering the country's airspace that night; one self-destructed, while the other turned back toward Russia. The drone that went off course entered Estonia from Russian airspace and crashed into the smokestack of the Auvere power plant.
On the night of March 25, Ukraine's Defense Forces struck a Russian combat icebreaker at the Vyborg Shipyard in the Leningrad region.
Photo: Ilmars Znotins