Following the drone incidents in Latvia, no terrorism threat is currently being identified, said Rihards Kozlovskis, Latvia’s Interior Minister from New Unity (JV).
He stated that authorities are currently searching for the second crashed drone. According to information available to the services, it may have fallen in a remote and uninhabited area in Rēzekne Municipality.
Kozlovskis emphasized that the drone incidents are not being viewed as a terrorism threat, and that the drones do not initially appear to have been deliberately directed at specific targets. The minister could not comment on whether the drones belonged to Ukraine.
Kozlovskis also informed that
the State Security Service of Latvia is currently operating in an enhanced readiness mode.
As previously reported, several unmanned aerial vehicles entered Latvian airspace from Russia early Thursday morning, with two of them crashing.
At the request of the National Armed Forces of Latvia, the State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia (VUGD) issued cell broadcast alerts at 4:09 a.m. in Ludza Municipality and Balvi Municipality, and at 4:43 a.m. in Rēzekne Municipality.
Before 9 a.m., authorities announced that the airspace threat declared earlier Thursday morning in Balvi, Ludza, and Rēzekne municipalities had ended.
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