Finland wants to speed up the rollout of air raid alerts on smartphones
Finland is considering accelerating the rollout of an update to its emergency services app that will enable the rapid dissemination of air raid alerts.
This was reported by Yle.
The plan involves expanding the functionality of the 112 Finland app, which has been under development for some time and incorporates, in particular, lessons learned from Ukraine.
Following incidents involving “stray” Ukrainian drones, Finland began assessing whether it could accelerate the launch of the system, which was previously scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.
The system will work so that if an air threat is detected, residents of the affected region will receive targeted alerts.
To receive these alerts, users will need to install the app and update it regularly.
In the future, they also plan to introduce alerts for phones without the app—based on the subscriber’s location data.
Two drones, likely belonging to Ukraine, crashed in Finland.
Finnish police reported the crash of another unidentified drone on Sunday, March 29. The incident occurred on sea ice near Mellsteninranta in the city of Espoo, in the Western Uusimaa region.
Ukrainian drones were in no way directed toward Finland, the Foreign Ministry stated. Kyiv has already provided the Finnish side with all necessary information to clarify the circumstances of the UAV crash and apologized for the incident. This was reported by Georgiy Tykhyi, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
