The authorities of Lithuania have confirmed this Monday that the drone that crashed the night before in the north of the country was of Ukrainian origin and was part of an operation against the Russian city of Saint Petersburg.
The Lithuanian Minister of Defense, Robertas Kaunas, has detailed that several drones "diverted" towards Baltic territory due to Russia's electronic warfare capabilities. "The attack was aimed at Saint Petersburg, and we know it perfectly well," he pointed out in an interview granted to the LRT network.
Kaunas took the opportunity to emphasize that the country is facing serious difficulties in responding to this type of events, as it still does not have a sufficiently robust air defense system, and criticized that no decisions were made regarding this in the past. "Today we are suffering the consequences," he lamented.
The minister also specified that the drone episode is not related to the attempted fire recorded also on the night of Sunday at facilities used by the American company SpaceX.
That same Sunday, Ukrainian forces carried out a drone attack against Saint Petersburg, which triggered a fire at an oil refinery. Russian regional authorities claimed to have intercepted up to 126 of these devices.
One of those drones penetrated Lithuanian airspace and activated a red alert in the regions of Siauliai and Panevezys, as well as a yellow alert in Kaunas. Finally, the remains of the device, which is suspected to have self-destructed, were located in the small locality of Juodzionys, in the north of the country, with no injuries reported.