Impact on NATO territory
Estonia: Drone hits power plant – government names country of origin
Updated March 25, 2026 – 1:03 p.mReading time: 3 minutes
A drone crashed into the chimney of a power plant in Estonia. Another neighboring country also reports an explosion. Now the background is clear.
According to the Estonian domestic intelligence service, a drone crashed into a chimney of a power plant in the NATO member state. The drone hit “the chimney of the Auvere power plant,” the ISS secret service said on Wednesday. According to the information, it “entered Estonian airspace from Russian airspace.”
Meanwhile, the government announced that it was an errant Ukrainian aircraft that Kiev used to attack Russian targets. The incident occurred at 3:43 a.m. (local time) in the power plant, which is located around 20 kilometers west of Narva, the country’s third largest city. This in turn is right on the border with Russia.
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No one was injured and the energy infrastructure was apparently not damaged, as the Estonian media “ERR” reported. Electricity producer Enefit Power said there would be no significant impact on the Estonian electricity grid. The Estonian Ministry of Defense confirmed this at the request of t-online.
The ministry also said that, according to current information, the drone entered Estonian airspace from the direction of Russian airspace. However, it was not aimed at Estonia.
“The first procedural steps have been initiated and the investigation will clarify the exact circumstances. The procedure is being led by the public prosecutor’s office and the incident is being investigated by the domestic secret service,” a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense told t-online this morning. The government called a special cabinet meeting over the incident.
The AFP news agency had previously reported that it was a Russian drone. As recent government figures show, this is not true.
Russia had previously announced that 56 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the Leningrad region on Wednesday night. A fire also broke out in the port of Ust-Luga. This was reported by the Ukrainian media “Kyiv Independent”, citing information from Governor Alexander Drozdenko. Ust-Luga is located in a bay just 25 kilometers from the border with Estonia, and the power plant that was hit is around 50 kilometers (as the crow flies) from the Russian port.
