The criminal investigation into the drone found at Iitti in Finland on Saturday continued, said police on Monday.
All of the four drones that have been found in Finland are a different kind and suspected Ukrainian origine, said police in a press release.
The Border Guard investigates the incident as a suspected territorial violation, and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) investigates a suspected grossly negligent endangerment.
The objective of the investigations is to establish, among others, whether the unmanned aircraft found in Iitti entered the Finnish territory at the same time as the previously found aircraft. The authorities aim to clarify the matter as the criminal investigation progresses.
“We can say at this point that it is the same kind of aircraft as those found earlier. On the basis of the information that we have received during the criminal investigation, all the four aircraft that have been found are a different kind from the type mentioned in public. They are significantly smaller than what has been described in public,” said Detective Superintendent of NBI Risto Lohi.
“The aircraft that have been found are smaller than what has been reported in public, and it is suspected that they are of Ukrainian origin. It should be highlighted, however, that forensic investigations are still underway, and we are not going to draw any conclusions yet,” said Lieutenant Jyri Siitari of the Border Guard’s Gulf of Finland Coast Guard.
As the authorities suspected that all the aerial vehicles were carrying explosives, they rendered them safe.
All the debris of aircraft found in Iitti has been submitted for forensic examination.
The deviation of the unmanned aerial vehicles is due to Ukraine's countermeasures in response to Russia's aggression in the war, said police, adding that the deviation of the is possibly due to GNSS interference.
The fourth drone was found at Iitti, a municipality in Southern Finland on April 11.
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.
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.
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.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
