According to Err.ee, Monday around 3:00 p.m. One of the local farmers found the wreckage of the assault drone.. The information provided by the manager of the Estonian intelligence agency KAPO Margot Palloson shows that on site, in the municipality of Elva, was besides located The crater was created after the explosion. No 1 was hurt in the incident.
Defense Minister Hanna Pevkur added that alerted services immediately entered the standard procedureAnd the rescue squad was called to the scene. The intelligence agency KAPO and the General Prosecutor's Office of Estonia initiated an investigation to clarify the circumstances. For now. It was possible to determine, among others, that the drone crashed on Sunday early morningHowever, the details of the investigation stay classified.
Drone hit Estonia. He may have belonged to the Ukrainian army
– We have reason to to think it was a Ukrainian dronewho attacked targets in Russia, but was pushed by Russian defence with the aid of jamming GPS systems. He could have strayed into Estonian airspace. At the moment, there is no indication that it may have been a Russian drone," said Margot Pallason, quoted by err.ee.
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As revealed, an unmanned belonged to a kind of military drone And he owned an explosive device that besides exploded. The chief of intelligence stressed that in contact with residential buildings she would most likely origin serious damage. She added that for the minute it was unclear, whether the object came specifically from Russia or from Latvia's airspace.
Estonia: request radar to detect low-flying drones
Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur pointed out that the reason for the crash of the drone in Estonia is that Russia continues the war in Ukraine, while the Ukrainian military defends itself. He announced that His country will get a fresh kind of radarcapable of detecting low flying objects.
– Can they be utilized to make a permanent barrier? Technically, yes. It depends on how much money we invest. Our possibilities will be greater either way. Time will tell if it will be 100% security. However, war Ukraine shows that There is no 100% effective barrier anywhere said the Minister of Defence of Estonia.
"A loud explosion". The villagers heard the explosion.
Estonian media journalists reached the witness to the incident. Tiiu, a farmer who at the time grazed his horses in a close village, said: – A fewer minutes later I heard unusual sounds and something flying over the house. That sound was acquainted with the scooter.. little than a minute later, a loud detonation was heard, so that the windows of the home shook.
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In turn in statements for Delfia Hiie Rosin, who lives A fewer 100 meters from where the drone fell.stated that initially the origin of this loud sound could not be identified; But it was frightening.. “I wondered if the war had already begun,” he confessed.
