{"id":33387,"date":"2025-09-27T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/drone-spotted-over-hydropower-plant-in-finland\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:31:21","slug":"drone-spotted-over-hydropower-plant-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/drone-spotted-over-hydropower-plant-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone spotted over hydropower plant in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown drone was spotted over the Valajaskoski hydropower plant in Rovaniemi, Finland. This incident occurred after the country&#039;s power plants were declared no-fly zones.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F09%2F27%2F1758965366-1983-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Drone spotted over hydropower plant in Finland\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A suspicious drone was spotted over a hydroelectric power plant in Rovaniemi, northern Finland; who was operating the flying apparatus is unknown, Yle reports, writes UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>&quot;An unknown person launched a drone over the Valajaskoski power plant in Rovaniemi. The incident occurred last weekend,&quot; the report says.<\/p>\n<p>Since August, power plants in the country have become no-fly zones, where the use of drones is prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>A passerby noticed the drone in Rovaniemi and contacted the police. Law enforcement agencies in the region confirmed this information to Yle, but did not disclose details due to investigative measures.<\/p>\n<p>Valajaskoski belongs to Kemijoki Oy. According to the head of emergency services, Juha Kutolahti, the power plants have video surveillance, but it did not record the drone operator.<\/p>\n<h2>Addition<\/h2>\n<p>In recent days, unknown drones have been recorded in European countries. Incidents have been reported in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Lithuania, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Also, recently, three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets violated Estonian airspace, staying there for 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump then said that he considers it the right decision for NATO countries to shoot down Russian planes if they violate their airspace.<\/p>\n<p>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte supported US President Donald Trump&#039;s comments this week that NATO member countries should shoot down Russian drones and planes if they enter their airspace, if such a step is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown drone was spotted over the Valajaskoski hydropower plant in Rovaniemi, Finland. This incident occurred after the country&#039;s power plants were declared no-fly zones. A suspicious drone was spotted over a hydroelectric power plant in Rovaniemi, northern Finland; who was operating the flying apparatus is unknown, Yle reports, writes UNN. Details &quot;An unknown person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}