Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna announced on Monday that he has summoned the Russian business manager in Tallín to formally protest the intrusion of a Russian border guard ship in its territorial waters. “On July 26, a Russian border guard vessel entered without permission in Estonias territorial waters,” he wrote in X.
“Today, the Estonia Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian business manager to formally protest this serious and unacceptable violation of our maritime border,” he added.
According to Public Television Er, the events occurred near the island of Vaindloo in the Gulf of Finland and the Russian boat remained for almost 35 minutes in Estonias waters. This is the first incident of this type so far this year, according to this medium, although the whole area is in a soul in suspense before a possible, even if it is accidentally.
In April, Estonia temporarily intercepted an oil company belonging according to the Baltic Country to the, to which an incursion in the Estonian Air Space of a Russian hunting followed to “verify the situation,” according to Tsahkna.
It is not the only suspicious cases denounced at this time on NATO soil, because the Armed Forces also approached their anti -aircraft defense systems to the border with any new rape of Lithuanian airspace, after entering the past morning of an object, possibly a Russian drone, from the neighboring country, according to the head of the Lithian armed forces, Raimondas Vaikšnoras, cited by the media.
The National Lithuanian Crisis Management Center confirmed to Efe the incursion of a drone and said that the non -manned aerial apparatus survived Vilna and that it is looking for where it could have crashed.
Residents had reported on social networks of a motor noise and shared images of a flying object captured with their mobile phones.
However, Interior Minister Vladislavas Kondritovičius said that drone, who had not yet been located on Monday, does not imply a threat to Lithuania.
The incident occurred just over two weeks after another drone, which was determined that it was a replica aimed at confusing the Ukrainian aerial defenses, crashed inside Lithuania, near the border with, after apparently entering from Ukraine. The fact that this country is a Russian satellite and was used to launch the “special military operation” of February 24, 2022 on Ukraine constantly fear for the movements on the other side.
The Minister of Lithuanian Defense, Dovilė Šakalienė, pointed out in statements to the media that the drone was probably affected by air defense countermeasures on Ukraine and began to fly over bellorus to Lithuania after losing its guidance programming.
There were also reports about the presence of a drone near Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania, more than 100 kilometers from the border with bellruse.
In the past autumn, an armed drone of the type flew more than 80 kilometers to neighboring Latvia and fell into a wooded area near a town, where her eyelet was destroyed by Larted Army specialists.
