“Can you actually believe there was a drone alarm here this morning?”

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I had just woken up, getting ready to go to work in central London. The message I’d received from my childhood friend in Helsinki was unexpected. My first reaction was confusion. Second was worry.

Although the details remain unclear, shrouded in secrecy, that morning in early May, there had been warnings of drones carrying large amounts of explosives heading towards Helsinki.

The entire capital city region was under lockdown for several hours, with people told not to leave their homes. Fighter jets were deployed.

The drones never came.

Several Ukrainian drones have been shot down or crashed in........

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