Latvia tells Ludza region to shelter over airspace threat

Key facts

• The Latvian army told people in the Ludza region along the Belarus border to take shelter.
• Lithuania's National Crisis Management Centre said NATO Baltic air defence fighters were scrambled.
• The statements did not identify the object or say whether it entered Latvian or Lithuanian airspace.

The Latvian army told people in the Ludza region, in the east of the country along the border with Belarus, to take shelter on November 10 because of a threat in the airspace, it said in a statement.

Lithuania's National Crisis Management Centre said in a separate statement that NATO fighters on the Baltic air defence mission had been scrambled in response to an object in Belarus flying toward the Baltics.

The statements did not identify the object, say who launched it, or state whether it crossed into Latvian or Lithuanian airspace. Neither statement gave an outcome, and no damage or casualties were reported in the body.