Two drones were found in southeastern Finland after crashing near the city of Kouvola on Sunday morning. One landed north of the city, while the other came down east of it. No one was injured in the incident. The Finnish president has announced that one of the drones has been confirmed to belong to Ukraine, indicating that Ukraine is using Finnish airspace for attacks in the ongoing war. The drones reportedly crashed as a result of Russian use of GPS jamming signals.

Last week, Samnytt reported that the so-called “Russian drones” highlighted by mainstream media in the Baltics were in fact Ukrainian drones. One of the drones struck a chimney at a thermal power plant outside Narva, near the Estonian-Russian border. Several newspapers were later forced to correct their articles due to incorrect information.

It has become clear that Ukraine is using NATO countries’ airspace for its so-called kamikaze drones, which hit Russian targets in the region around St. Petersburg. Several media outlets have noted that the drones have struck oil ports that play a key role in the country’s energy exports.

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The question is whether the drones are actually launched from Ukraine or from the Baltic countries when used against targets in the region. So far, there have been no protests or open criticism directed at Ukraine, even though the countries’ airspace is clearly being used, opening a new front.

This weekend, another incident occurred, this time in Finland, where two drones crashed—one of which has already been confirmed by Finnish authorities to belong to Ukraine. This demonstrates that Ukraine is using both Baltic and Finnish airspace to conduct attacks.

Either the long-range drones fly all the way from Ukraine, or they are launched from these countries, which means attacks are now being carried out from NATO countries.

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According to Finnish authorities, the drones crashing in these countries may have been unintentional. At the same time, it still constitutes a violation of the countries’ airspace and presents risks, both due to the drones’ physical danger and the possibility that Russia may choose to respond to the incidents.

Finland Did Not Shoot Down Ukrainian Drones

At a press conference later on Sunday, the country’s security authorities emphasized that the drones are linked to military operations in the region, i.e., to the Russian targets that have been attacked recently. The security situation around the Gulf of Finland is now considered increasingly tense, as the area has become a new front in the ongoing war, which has now lasted five years.

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The same authorities at the press conference assessed that the situation did not pose a military threat to Finland. The defense forces had tracked the drones’ movements but chose not to shoot them down. In other words, Ukraine was allowed to fly drones in Finnish airspace.

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has also stated that the two drones are most likely Ukrainian and that they crashed due to Russian jamming of navigation signals in the area. This according to Euronews.

The Finnish police have announced that since the incident, they have been working to “secure and examine the wreckage.” This includes, among other things, making the drones safe and subsequently determining their origin, purpose, and intended route.

DN Stepped In to Reassure

On Monday, Dagens Nyheter stepped in to reassure Nordic residents, insisting that there is nothing to worry about remote-controlled kamikaze drones filled with explosives flying through the airspace on their way to strike targets in the neighboring country.

“It was Ukrainian,” writes DN, simultaneously urging its readers to instead worry about when the Russian drones might come here.

The risk of DN’s scenario with Russian drones likely increases significantly if the area is allowed to fill with Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacking ports and ships in the Gulf of Finland. It is a consequence that cannot be dismissed—but which the paper, as a so-called ‘agenda-setting’ outlet, chooses to ignore entirely.

No Finnish Criticism of Ukraine

In a social media post, Finland’s president Alexander Stubb, in a relatively muted statement, reports that “one of the drones” came from Ukraine. Several media outlets, including DN, have since claimed that both drones came from Ukraine.

At the same time, Stubb emphasizes that there is no military threat to Finland. The statement could be interpreted as meaning that neither Ukraine nor Russia is conducting targeted military operations against the country, contrary to the picture sometimes presented in European media by intelligence agencies and political representatives—that Russia is engaging in drone flights in these countries. Such alarm, incidentally, has gone largely quiet recently.

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Stubb’s statement is also in line with what Juha Martelius, head of the Finnish security service Supo—the equivalent of Sweden’s Säpo—said in mid-March when the agency published its annual security assessment. He emphasized then that Russia lacks interest in activities directed at Finland that could have negative consequences for transport, including oil shipments from ports near St. Petersburg.

The Finnish security service’s assessment is based on the fact that Russia already has limited opportunities for trade with the outside world, with this route through the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea considered to be of decisive importance.

– I believe it is an overly simplistic analysis to claim that Russia only wants to cause trouble. Russia’s main motivation is to maintain the ability to transport oil from the Gulf of Finland, said Supo chief Juha Martelius in March to the magazine Suomen Kuvalehtit.

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“It is not justified to carry out risky actions, which would also have negative consequences for Russia, just to cause confusion,” the Finnish security service also stated in its report.

However, President Alexander Stubb gives no indication in his statement of any intended measures against Ukraine, despite the fact that it is clear Ukrainian drones are using Finnish airspace during attacks on Russian ports and transport ships in the border area as part of the ongoing war.

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“Finland stands ready to monitor and protect its territory,” the president tells the Finnish population, without directing any criticism at Ukraine.

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