{"id":1394993,"date":"2026-05-19T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-drone-was-shot-down-during-an-alert-in-estonia-what-is-known-about-the-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:01:56","slug":"a-drone-was-shot-down-during-an-alert-in-estonia-what-is-known-about-the-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-drone-was-shot-down-during-an-alert-in-estonia-what-is-known-about-the-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"A drone was shot down during an alert in Estonia: what is known about the incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A NATO fighter jet patrolling the Baltic region has shot down a drone over Estonia. The incident occurred over Lake V\u00f5rtsj\u00e4rv in the south of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.ee\/artikkel\/120584829\/louna-eestis-on-voimalik-droonioht\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> Delfi and ERR.<\/p>\n<p> Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur stated that, according to preliminary data, it was a Ukrainian drone that could have lost orientation due to the operation of electronic warfare systems.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Most likely, it was a Ukrainian drone that went off course due to systems being jammed,&#8221; Pevkur said.<\/p>\n<p> The same version was voiced by Marko Mikhelson, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament.<\/p>\n<p> Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal, commenting on the situation in parliament, said that the incident showed the country&#8217;s readiness to respond to such threats.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We can probably still handle the situation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p> There is currently no information about casualties or damage.<\/p>\n<p> Before that, Estonia and Latvia declared an air alert almost simultaneously due to the appearance of drones in part of their airspace. In Latvia, this resulted in the temporary suspension of rail services and even the interruption of language exams.<\/p>\n<p> In recent months, the Baltic and Scandinavian countries have increasingly reported the appearance of drones near their borders amid Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NATO fighter jet patrolling the Baltic region has shot down a drone over Estonia. The incident occurred over Lake V\u00f5rtsj\u00e4rv in the south of the country. This is reported by Delfi and ERR. Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur stated that, according to preliminary data, it was a Ukrainian drone that could have lost orientation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1278807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1394993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}