Ukrainian and Russian drones hit Estonia and Latvia in the middle of the battle for the Russian port of Ust-Luga in the Baltic

And russian drone This morning it hit the chimney of a power plant in the town of Auvere, Estoniaafter entering the airspace of this Baltic republic from Russian territory.

The Internal Security Service (ISS) has confirmed that he incident occurred at 3:43 a.m.. As stated in Estonian public broadcaster ERR, no injuries have been reported.

The power plant did not suffer direct damage, according to the generating company Enefit Power, and the incident will have a significant impact in el sistema eléctrico estonia.

This incident occurred at a time when the Russian Baltic port of Ust-Upin the Leningrad region, was being attacked by Ukrainian drones, while the oil facilities in the port of Primorsk, in that same region, have been on fire for more than two days

“These are the consequences of Russia’s large-scale war of aggression. We can anticipate that we will suffer more incidents of this type,” in the words of Margo Palloson, general director of the ISS.

The Estonian Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, considers that the drone was not intentionally directed towards the Auvere power plant. He has also not been able to confirm that he was deliberately heading towards Estonia.

“According to the information available, the drone was not directed against Estonia. The first measures are being taken and the investigation will clarify the most specific circumstances,” declared the State Attorney General, Astrid Asi, through a statement.

The incident occurs in the middle of an attack on Russian Baltic port of Ust-Lugain the Leningrad region, by Ukrainian drones. In parallel, two drones with alleged origins in Ukraine have hit territory of Latvia.

One of the drones has crashed near a town in the southeast, according to Egils LeschinskisBrigadier General of the Latvian Armed Forces, without causing damage. The device entered Latvian airspace from Belarus shortly before 1:00 a.m. and skirted the border until entering Russian airspace.

The second flying object entered Latvian airspace from Russia after 2 a.m. and was tracked by sensors for 20 minutes until it disappeared and detonated near the village of Dubravičina, near the town of Kraslava.

The spokesperson for the Armed Forces indicated that local police and military personnel moved to the area where the drone exploded to collect the remains and try to identify its origin. The Prime Minister of Latvia, Evika Siliņa, points out that the drone could come from Ukraine.

Leščinskis has urged us to wait for the results of the tests on the exploded device, but declared that “there is no evidence or suspicion that, in this case, the drone was intentionally headed towards Latvia“.

Colonel Arvis Zīle, head of the Latvian Crisis Management Center, points out that the country is close to a military conflict zone and that conflicts are possible. drone intrusions of either of the two parties.

“As a consequence of these hostilities, such incidents are possible in our country in the future, but this is not a national crisis. This is a isolated incident that our national armed forces were dealing with,” Zīle said.