An illustration of a Russian-type Shahed drone flying over a highway. Estonia recently shot down a Ukrainian drone that had erroneously entered its airspace. (Shutterstock/Anelo)

Oops: Estonia Shot Down Ukrainian Drone After Airspace Incursion

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Ukraine issued a formal apology for the incident, which Foreign Ministry officials blamed on Russian electronic interference. 

Spillover from the Ukraine conflict into neighboring NATO nations is a relatively rare, but hardly unprecedented, phenomenon. Polish and NATO allied aircraft shot down nearly two dozenRussian drones that violated Polish airspace during a massive aerial attack on Ukraine in September. It marked the first instance of NATO combat aircraft engaging potential threats within an alliance member’s airspace since the war began.

Earlier this week, NATO aircraft scrambled again to shoot down a drone over another member nation, this time in the Baltic state of Estonia. However, this time, the offending aircraft wasn’t a........

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