Denmark has accused a Russian warship of firing 2 exigency flares astatine 1 its helicopters portion it was tracking the vas successful the Baltic Sea.
The Danish authorities has summoned the Russian ambassador implicit the incident, which it said happened during a "routine" monitoring cognition connected Monday.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen branded the Russian enactment "reckless" and said it was designed to "intimidate and divide".
Moscow has not commented connected the incident.
It came connected the same time Nato forces changeable down a drone implicit Lithuania successful the latest information scare connected the alliance's eastbound flank, wherever tensions stay precocious during Russia's full-scale penetration of Ukraine.
In a connection detailing the incidental successful the Baltic Sea, the Danish equipped forces said: "One of the aerial force's Fennec helicopters was contiguous fired astatine with flares during a regular photographic cognition of a Russian frigate, which was located successful planetary waters disconnected Gedser."
Of the 2 flares fired astatine the helicopter, 1 passed adjacent to it, the connection added.
The Danish overseas ministry described the incidental arsenic "completely unacceptable".
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen accused Russia of "gradually shifting the bound for what they see acceptable behaviour", adding: "That is thing we cannot accept."
Overnight, Nato combatant pilots changeable down a drone that entered Lithuania's airspace.
Authorities said the drone apt entered confederate Lithuania, adjacent the second-largest metropolis of Kaunas, from neighbouring Belarus soon aft midnight connected Tuesday.
The origins of the drone are yet to beryllium determined, the Lithuanian nationalist situation absorption centre said, but the country's president pointed to accrued Russian aggression successful caller months.
President Gitanas Nausėda wrote connected X: "With Russia intensifying its aggression against Ukraine, specified readiness is captious for our region. Together with our Nato Allies, Lithuania volition support its airspace."
Lithuania shares a ample portion of its confederate and eastbound borderline with Belarus, a cardinal Russian ally.
Poland besides announced determination had been "aviation operations" successful its airspace connected Monday nighttime "due to the enactment of Russian Federation's jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles conducting strikes connected Ukrainian territory".
It said the overnight operations were of a "preventive nature" and aimed astatine "securing airspace and its protection, particularly successful areas adjacent to threatened regions".
Nato jets person been scrambled respective times to sprout down stray Ukrainian drones that person crossed into Baltic countries Estonia and Latvia this year.
Ukraine has blamed the stray drones connected Russian physics warfare, exertion designed to alteration the formation paths of Ukrainian drones.
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