Romanian jet shoots down drone believed to Ukrainian over Estonia
Authorities say a Romanian F-16 jet belonging to NATO air policing forces in the Baltics have shot down what is believed to have been a Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia.
Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said Tuesday that given the trajectory of the drone “we decided that we need to take it down.” It was the latest in a string of incidents in recent months in which Ukrainian drones aimed at Russia have crossed or come down in NATO territory.
Pevkur said that “we’ve said to the Ukrainians all the time that if you’re attacking Russian positions or Russian targets then these trajectories have to be as far from the NATO territory as possible.”
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