KAPO spokesperson Marta Tuul said that earlier today, a local resident discovered a piece of a drone that had washed ashore in the village of Kalvi, in Viru-Nigula parish. Additional searches have since uncovered more fragments.
According to KAPO’s preliminary assessment, the debris likely belongs to parts of a Ukrainian drone wing that had previously crashed and was later carried to the Estonian coast by the sea.
“At the moment, initial procedures are being carried out, and it is not yet possible to comment on the exact circumstances,” the spokesperson said.
Tiia Paist-Lepik, a Lääne-Virumaa resident who was at Kalvi beach when the drone was found, told Postimees that she had been walking along the shore shortly before 11 am when she came across a family who had noticed the drone in the water.
According to her description, the piece – approximately three meters long – was located in shallow water a short distance from the shore.
«The father of the family said that the object had a marking indicating Ukraine,» Paist-Lepik said, adding that she could not say whether it was a Ukrainian flag, coat of arms, or some other symbol. “I didn’t go closer myself,” she added.
Paist-Lepik noted that it was fortunate that the debris was found by that particular family. “If, for example, some young boys had found it, who knows how it might have ended,” she said.
