Overview
- Police found a crashed unmanned aircraft with an unexploded warhead in a forest in Iitti in southern Finland, and the Armed Forces carried out a controlled detonation the same evening.
- The police lifted the cordon in the Perheniemi area after checks, and officers reported no injuries or property damage near the site about a kilometre from the nearest homes.
- The National Bureau of Investigation took over the case, and the Border Guard opened a probe into a suspected breach of Finland’s territorial integrity.
- Police said the wreck resembles drones that fell in southeastern Finland in late March, two of which authorities identified as Ukrainian after Kyiv said some units were knocked off course by Russian interference.
- Officials previously added extra radar coverage in the southeast, and Finland’s security service warned that Russia is using the drone incidents in its propaganda.