21 September 2025 - Russia Special Weapons News

Ukraine Says Russia Hits Firefighters With 'Double-Tap' Strike RFE/RL 21 Sep 2025 -- Russian forces targeted Ukrainian emergency responders with a deadly "double-tap" attack, Ukrainian officials said, wounding two responders in the northern region of Chernihiv.

UN Security Council to Convene Emergency Meeting Following Violation of Estonian Airspace Estonia MFA 21 Sep 2025 -- On September 22, at 10:00 AM New York time (5:00 PM Estonian time), the United Nations Security Council will convene an emergency meeting in response to Russia's brazen violation of Estonian airspace last Friday. This marks the first time in Estonia's 34 years of UN membership that the country has formally requested an emergency meeting of the Security Council.
Secretary General Vseviov: In the future, Russia must consider the possibility that fighter jets violating airspace will be shot down Estonia MFA 21 Sep 2025 -- Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said yesterday, 19 September, during a meeting in Stockholm with his Swedish counterpart Maria Malmer Stenergard, that Russia's brazen violation of Estonia's airspace demonstrates how Moscow is increasingly testing boundaries, and it underlines the need to collectively intensify pressure on Russia.
Latvia expresses a categorical protest to Russia over the violation of Estonia's airspace Latvia MFA 21 Sep 2025 -- Today, on 21 September 2025, in solidarity with Estonia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia summoned the Chargé d'Affaires of the Russian Embassy in Latvia to deliver them a note and lodge a categorical protest concerning incursion by the Russian fighter aircraft into the airspace of Estonia on 19 September.

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