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A suspected breach of Latvian airspace by an unidentified flying object turned out to be a flock of birds, the Latvian news agency Leta reported on Tuesday evening, citing the air force. The object approached the border from Belarus on Tuesday and crossed it in the eastern Krāslava region. The Ministry of Defence in Riga had previously said that an unidentified flying object had been detected. NATO interceptors stationed at the Lielvārde base were scrambled for airspace surveillance but they were unable to detect any suspicious objects. Latvia, like its Baltic NATO neighbours Estonia and Lithu…