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Ukrainian drone shot down by NATO jet over Estonia; Kyiv blames Moscow for steering it there

Ukraine blamed Russia on Tuesday for steering one of ​its drones into Estonian airspace where a NATO jet shot it down, the latest cross-border drone incident that has caused a political ‌uproar in the Baltic states. Latvia issued a first air threat alert over a possible drone entering its airspace on Tuesday, telling residents near the Russian border to stay indoors, with NATO Baltic Air Police jets summoned to the area. It later said it found no evidence that a drone had entered its air space. It declared a second air threat alert after that, ​over two counties bordering Russia, leading to a fresh deployment of NATO fighter jets. “Russia continues to redirect Ukrainian drones into the Baltics with the ​use of its electronic warfare,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said on X. “We apologise to Estonia and all of ⁠our Baltic friends for such unintended incidents.”

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