NATO fighter jets, which were deployed to patrol the airspace of the Baltic states, failed to shoot down a UAV that entered Lithuanian territory last night, the head of the Lithuanian National Center for Crisis Management reported.
Remnants of missiles launched by the fighters were found in Birzai district, in the north of the country, near the border with Latvia. According to the Lithuanian authorities, the UAV continued its course towards Latvian airspace.
In addition to the unidentified UAV, which according to the National Crisis Management Center, could have been a Ukrainian UAV that went off course on its way to Russia, the Lithuanian radar systems detected about 10 targets matching the characteristics of balloons used by smugglers to transport cigarettes across the border.