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Follow-up: Latvia shoots down drone hours after issuing air threat alert
Follow-up: Latvia shoots down drone hours after issuing air threat alert. This confirms the escalation we flagged as a live possibility in our earlier piece , this wasn't a stray drone drifting off course, it required a NATO air defence mis
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Follow-up: Latvia shoots down drone hours after issuing air threat alert. This confirms the escalation we flagged as a live possibility in our earlier piece , this wasn't a stray drone drifting off course, it required a NATO air defence mis
Follow-up: Latvia shoots down drone hours after issuing air threat alert
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Follow-up: Latvia shoots down drone hours after issuing air threat alert. This confirms the escalation we flagged as a live possibility in our earlier piece , this wasn't a stray drone drifting off course, it required a NATO air defence mis
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This confirms the escalation we flagged as a live possibility in our earlier piece , this wasn't a stray drone drifting off course, it required a NATO air defence mission to physically shoot it down over Latvian territory, a more serious outcome than the alert-and-clear pattern that has repeated through 2026. Combined with 15 drones downed near Russia's own Leningrad border region and reports that NATO's northern members are actively hardening dams, power plants and gas infrastructure against a possible false flag attack, the story has moved from routine border friction toward something closer…
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