Finland’s military said on Thursday that its forces had detected a strike on a Russian warship in the Gulf of Finland area a day earlier and had monitored the situation since, Reuters reported. A spokesperson said Finland is under no immediate military threat and that the security situation in the area remained stable, but declined to give the location, timing or method of detection, and it was not immediately clear what caused the strike or whether there were casualties. Estonian media reported the vessel was a small Russian navy ship that later returned to St Petersburg.
The incident sits against a week of Ukrainian drone waves toward Russia’s Leningrad region, including the Baltic oil port of Ust-Luga, with some drones straying into Finnish and Baltic airspace; Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania issued shelter warnings early on Wednesday and NATO scrambled warplanes in response. No party has claimed the strike, and Russia has not commented in the reporting so far.