Europe · Saturday, 15 August 2026
NATO shot down a drone over Latvia, and Turkish F-16s were scrambled too
Two Italian Eurofighters scrambled from Šiauliai in Lithuania and shot down a drone that had entered Latvian airspace, and two Turkish F-16s from Ämari in Estonia went up at the same time. All the aircraft were under NATO command and an investigation is running. Latvia's defence ministry wrote that the vehicle had entered the country as a result of Russian electromagnetic warfare, and this is the second such shootdown over Latvia after the first in June.