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Latvia: NATO jet shoots down stray drone

On June 8, 2026, a French Rafale fighter jet operating under NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission shot down a stray drone that entered Latvian airspace, with no reported civilian injuries or property damage. Latvian military officials attributed the unauthorised incursion to Russian electromagnetic warfare, marking the first such shootdown over Latvia amid a rising number of stray drone incidents in Baltic NATO states tied to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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drone shootdownstray droneairspace incursionRussian electromagnetic warfareBaltic securityRussia-Ukraine war spillovermilitary incident

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Latvia: NATO jet shoots down stray drone

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