NATO planes shoot down a drone in Latvian airspace
The incursion of a device coming from Russia has activated the air alert in the country
BarcelonaNATO planes shot down a drone in Latvia's airspace on Monday. This was reported by the Baltic country's military, after issuing an aerial threat alert for its eastern regions bordering Russia and Belarus, asking the population to stay at home. Minutes later, the alert was deactivated.
An army spokesperson told the Reuters news agency that at least one drone had entered Latvian airspace from Russia.
These kinds of episodes, in which military drones enter the airspace of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (countries bordering Russia), have fueled concerns that the war in Ukraine is spreading to NATO's northern borders. As Ukraine intensifies long-range attacks on Russian oil transport ports in the Baltic Sea, some of its drones have missed their targets and caused security alerts in neighboring countries.