Over the past week, several Ukrainian drones have been found in Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania or strayed into the countries' airspace.

Kyiv has been attacking Russia's Baltic Sea oil infrastructure, and the two biggest ports are close to the borders with Finland and Estonia.

On Tuesday, several drones entered Estonia's airspace and one was found in a field in Tartu County in the south of the country. Last week, another hit a chimney at a power plant in Ida-Viru County.

Sybiha said Ukraine is in constant contact with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland about the situation, at a press conference in Kyiv with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.

The intelligence suggests Russia may be attempting to create tensions between Ukraine and its European allies by framing Kyiv as responsible for drone incidents beyond its borders.

"We have intelligence data confirming that in all these cases, these were deliberate and targeted actions by Russia," Sybiha said, as quoted by the Kyiv Independent.

Sybiha said that Ukraine has never intentionally directed drones toward these countries and is working with partners to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has said the drones were not intentionally directed toward Finland or the Baltic states.

We had a constructive and friendly meeting with Baltic colleagues @Tsahkna @Braze_Baiba @BudrysKestutis in Kyiv.

I thanked them for coming to Ukraine and marking this date together with us, as well as for all of their staunch support for Ukraine.

We discussed shared security… pic.twitter.com/9ASUwprsVN

— Andrii Sybiha (@andrii_sybiha) March 31, 2026

At a meeting with the Baltic foreign ministers, Sybiha said he expressed "regret' over the drone incidents.

"We discussed Russia's efforts not only to cause such incidents, but also to use them for their propaganda purposes, and how we can counter them together," he said.

Russia has claimed that the Baltic states have been allowing Ukraine to use their airspace for attacks against it, which ministers have denied.

"Estonia has not opened its airspace for anyone to carry out attacks," Minister of Foreign Affairs Margus Tsahkna reiterated on Tuesday, following a meeting with Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian president's office.

At the meeting with Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine @Kyrylo_Budanov today, together with my Latvian colleague @Braze_Baiba, I stressed that recent drone incidents in Europe are a direct consequence of Russia's full-scale war. Ukraine has every right to self-defense… pic.twitter.com/yPJwQWjfWG

— Margus Tsahkna (@Tsahkna) March 31, 2026

At the meeting wth Budanov, the Estonian minister said both he and Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Baiba Braže stressed recent drone incidents in Europe are a direct consequence of Russia's full-scale war.

"Ukraine has every right to self-defense and to respond to Russia's brutal attacks. We understand that Ukraine is forced to respond to Russia's brutal attacks, and that drone strikes against ports feeding Russia's war machine are part of that response," Tsahkna wrote on social media.

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