Ukraine apologizes after a suspected drone crashes in Lithuania, damaging a moving car.
Debris has damaged a moving car in Lithuania, where NATO jets were scrambled. Kyiv says Russian jamming may have diverted drones targeting Russia.
Ukraine issued an apology on Sunday following a suspected drone crash in northern Lithuania, prompting shelter alerts and the deployment of NATO fighter jets. The incident sparked fresh worries about the infiltration of Russia's war in Ukraine into NATO territory, though the drone's source and whether it carried explosives were under scrutiny.
Lithuanian officials advised residents in central and northern areas to seek shelter on Sunday morning after detecting an unidentified flying object. Debris from the crash damaged a moving civilian vehicle, but there were no injuries, according to the head of Lithuania's national crisis management center, Vilmantas Vitkauskas. Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas suggested the drone likely entered from neighboring Poland and proposed a joint investigation with Warsaw.
Two Italian Eurofighter jets, operating under NATO command, were dispatched for the situation, a NATO spokesperson confirmed. Weather conditions hindered visual identification of the drone. Lithuania and its Baltic neighbors have faced multiple drone incursions during the conflict, with Ukrainian drones targeting northwestern Russia inadvertently drifting into Baltic airspace and crashing.
Russian-made drones have also flown into Lithuania from Belarus. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda described Sunday's event as another instance of the war extending onto NATO's eastern edge.
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