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Claim: Russian EW diverts Ukrainian long-range drones into Baltic airspace

The article cites Ukraine’s foreign minister attributing wayward Ukrainian drones in Latvia/Baltics to Russian electronic warfare deliberately diverting them off-course. If accurate, this indicates an operational EW tactic focused on navigation manipulation/spoofing to reroute strike UAVs rather than simply jamming them, with strategic effects (forcing crashes/impacts in friendly territory and exposing air-defense gaps).

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