Petteri Orpo has linked the aerial incursion to Kiev’s latest UAV attacks on oil facilities in Russia’s north-western Leningrad Region
Two suspected Ukrainian drones have crashed in Finland, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has reported, conjecturing that the UAVs were launched as part of Kiev’s latest attacks on neighboring Russia’s Leningrad Region.
In a post on X on Sunday, Orpo wrote that the “drones have strayed into Finnish territory,” and that the incident was being investigated by local authorities and the Defense Forces.
The Finnish prime minister characterized the “territorial violation as a very serious matter,” as quoted by Yle News.
Meanwhile, the country’s Air Force identified one of the UAVs as a Ukrainian AN196 drone.
There have been no reports of casualties on the ground as a result of the incident.
According to the Nordic country’s Defense Ministry, “several small, slow-flying, low-flying objects were observed in Finnish airspace over the sea and in southeastern Finland on Sunday morning.”
F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets were deployed to monitor the drones, but did not use suppressive fire so as to avoid collateral damage, according to Yle News.
The Defense Ministry stated that the UAVs eventually crashed near the city of Kouvola, roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of the Russian border.
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