File photo of Ukrainian drone fragments lying on the yard of a residential building in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (EPA Images pic) VILNIUS: The Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia withdrew on Wednesday a flurry of alerts that had urged citizens to seek shelter against threats from unidentified drones entering from neighbours Russia or Belarus, officials and media said.

Nato air defence fighter jets had been activated, the alerts had said, though there were no reports of injuries, while Lithuania's crisis officials said the warning covered the second most populous city of Kaunas, home to about 300,000.

Finland, another Russian neighbour, adopted temporary airspace and maritime curbs in the eastern Gulf of Finland on Wednesday, its defence forces said on X, but also withdrew them later.