Multiple media reports, including the Cyprus Mail, said a drone struck the RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus early on Monday.
Personnel on the bases were informed a “small drone” had “impacted the airfield” and that the bases’ authorities were responding.
UK military personnel were urged to take cover after the blasts were heard at RAF Akrotiri, near Limassol, around midnight.
This came hours after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he had given permission to the United States to use British bases “for specific and limited defensive purposes”.
Starmer and the Cypriot government had earlier in the day dismissed reports by British Defence Secretary John Healey that Iranian missiles were intercepted while heading towards the direction of Cyprus.
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