A drone that entered Estonian airspace was shot down over Lake Võrtsjärv, Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said. Drone debris fell at the edge of a field in Kablaküla village, Põltsamaa Municipality.
The Estonian Defence Forces issued an air threat alert for southern Estonia Tuesday afternoon and ended it at 12:55 p.m.
Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur told ERR that a drone entered Estonian airspace and has been shot down.
“We received advance information from our Latvian colleagues, and our radar also detected a drone moving into southern Estonia. We activated the necessary measures, and a Baltic Air Policing fighter jet shot the drone down,” Pevkur said.
“The incident occurred under the conditions of heavy electronic warfare, including GPS spoofing and jamming, by Russia,” the Estonian Defense Forces noted in a statement.
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