The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in cooperation with the Finnish Border Guard started an investigation into suspected territorial violation after one more drone was found at Iitti, a municipality in Southern Finland on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Police said that a bystander found the crashed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a forest at Perheniemi area at about 1:10 p.m. and informed the emergency centre.
Responding to the alarm police and Defense Forces rushed to the spot and isolated the area and urged the people to avoid movement there.
Police said that the drone, however, either did not cause any harm or pose any danger to the people.
Later Police and Defence Forces detonated the drone late Saturday night at about 8:20 p.m.
Police together with the Defence Forces and Border Guard are investigating into the incident.
After the preliminary investigation police said that the drone was similar to those previously found in southeastern Finland that all are suspected to be Ukrainian.
Two drones crashed in Kouvola in southeastern Finland after entering into Finnish airspace in the morning on March 29.
One more Ukrainian drone was found in Finland on March 31, 2026.
The Ukrainian authorities apologised to Finland for the drones’ crashes.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said that the authorities do not completely exclude the possibility that, in addition to the unmanned aerial vehicles already found in Finland, several other such aircraft might have ended up in the country.
The Finnish Defence Forces intensified surveillance measures to ensure territorial integrity when Ukraine carried out attacks against Russian targets in the eastern Gulf of Finland.
On April 7, Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen and her Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha discussed the recent incidents of drones that have strayed into Finnish territory.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
