What Happened
Unidentified Drone Sparks Air-Threat Alerts Across Baltic States
NATO fighter jets made two unsuccessful attempts to shoot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus, prompting air-threat alerts across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The incident occurred amid Ukrainian drone strikes on northwestern Russia, including the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga. According to AeroTime, the drone was detected near Kaunas, but the fighters could not engage it due to the risk to civilians, and subsequent attempts to destroy it failed, with debris from a missile later found near Biržai.