Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė stated that the drone that crashed yesterday on the country’s territory near the border with Belarus was Ukrainian.
“The drone that crossed our airspace and entered the Varėna District was a Ukrainian drone, and it is linked to an operation that Ukrainians were carrying out that night against Russia. We can already say with confidence that this was a drone that went off course,” she said after today’s meeting of the National Security Commission, as reported by LRT.
Lithuanian Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas also said that the drone was highly likely to have been Ukrainian.
“Preliminary information from the services is that this was one of the drones from a swarm that attacked the Primorsk port. (…) It is very likely that this was a Ukrainian drone that lost its course under the influence of electronic warfare measures and crashed on our territory,” he said.
According to him, neither Belarus nor Lithuania detected the drone.
“I would like to note that neither Belarus saw it, nor Lithuania, unfortunately, detected it, as the drone was flying lower than, apparently, 300 meters. The services are still clarifying this point,” he added.
It should be recalled that from Sunday to Monday, the oil terminal port of Primorsk in Russia’s Leningrad Region was attacked. The authorities of the Russian region stated that 70 drones had been shot down. Explosions were reported at the port, followed by a major fire.
