NATO Jet Downs Drone Over Latvia; Russia Blamed
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- NATO aircraft shot down a drone over Latvia, with Latvia formally attributing the incident to 'Russian electromagnetic warfare' per CNBC.
- The Italian fighter jet made the intercept in Latvian airspace, according to Reuters, as outlets from the WSJ to live blogs framed the incident as part of a growing Russia threat.
Why it matters: Latvia publicly blamed the incursion on 'Russian electromagnetic warfare' — a deliberate-operation framing rather than treating it as accidental border drift. The intercept was made by an Italian, not a Baltic-state, fighter jet, underscoring NATO's Baltic air policing mission is now rotating the load across allies.
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