Russia warns Latvia against letting Ukraine launch drones, threatens retaliation, drawing sharp US rebuke

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, on Tuesday ⁠said Moscow ⁠had information that Ukraine planned to launch military drones from ⁠Latvia and other Baltic states, warning that membership in NATO would not protect those countries from retaliation.

Nebenzya, speaking during a UN ⁠Security ⁠Council meeting on security in Ukraine, claimed Kyiv had already dispatched Ukrainian drone forces to Latvia.

Latvia’s envoy to the ⁠Security Council, Sanita Pavluta-Deslandes, immediately rejected the remarks as “pure fiction.” Tammy Bruce, the deputy U.S. ambassador to ⁠the UN, warned ‌that ‌the UN ⁠was “no place ‌for threats against a council member” ⁠and said ⁠the U.S. would ⁠keep all its NATO commitments.