- Nato fighter jets shot down a drone after it entered Latvian airspace, while Finland temporarily restricted aviation and maritime traffic in parts of the eastern Gulf of Finland as a precaution against possible drones.
- Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones sparked a fire at one of Russia’s major oil refineries in Bashkortostan on Thursday, according to regional officials.
- Polish authorities foiled a suspected Russian plot in Warsaw to assassinate a Ukrainian-American, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that two were killed in a Russian drone attack on a passenger train in the Odesa region.
- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the disputed Kuril island of Etorofu, calling it “absolutely unacceptable”.
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