Romanian jet shoots down what’s believed to have been a Ukrainian drone over Estonia (opens in new tab)

2026-05-19T12:10:02Z TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Romanian F-16 jet belonging to NATO air policing forces in the Baltics on Tuesday shot down what is believed to have been a Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia, authorities said.Given the trajectory of the drone, “we decided that we need to take it down,” Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said.“Most probably, today we can say that it was (a) drone which was, let’s say, meant to hit some Russian targets,” he told The Associated Press. It wa...