Shot down · Latvia
French NATO fighter shoots down drone near Bērzgale, Latvia
· Bērzgale
Foreign-drone shoot-down; origin unresolved
On 8 June 2026 a drone (UAV) entered Latvian airspace and was intercepted in the Bērzgale area of Latvia. A French fighter jet operating with NATO then shot it down.
The drone's nationality and model were not conclusively identified in contemporaneous accounts of the incident. It is treated as a foreign drone, but its origin has not been established; its route was not specified, and what, if anything, it carried remains unknown.
No casualties were reported in Latvia. After the shoot-down, a search for the wreckage and an investigation of the debris followed.
Attribution and uncertainty
- Origin / operator / attribution
- Nationality/model not conclusively identified in contemporaneous account
- Investigation / uncertainty
- Origin and payload unresolved in collected account.
Sources · 2
Full record
Map positions are approximate anchors for the named place, not verified incident coordinates.
- Reported date
- 2026-06-08
- Date basis
- 8 June; EEST
- Location / jurisdiction
- Bērzgale area; EU airspace
- Event categories
- Incursion; interception; NATO shoot-down; wreckage search
- What was reported
- Drone intercepted in Latvian airspace.
- Aircraft / vessel / quantity
- 1 UAV
- Origin / operator / attribution
- Nationality/model not conclusively identified in contemporaneous account
- Damage / casualties / disruption
- No casualties reported
- Response / outcome
- French NATO fighter shot it down; debris investigation.
- Investigation / uncertainty
- Origin and payload unresolved in collected account.
- Route / entry mechanism
- Route unspecified
- Explosive payload
- Not reported
- Counting / links
- One incident record; no duplicate stages added.
- Research provenance
- Prior research; not independently rechecked in full for this export
Record E031. Record fields keep the register’s original wording.