{"id":543757,"date":"2026-05-20T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=543757"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:57:39","slug":"air-raid-alert-declared-in-several-areas-of-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/air-raid-alert-declared-in-several-areas-of-latvia","title":{"rendered":"Air Raid Alert Declared in Several Areas of Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>At 9:17 on May 20, an air raid alert was declared in three areas of Latvia \u2014 Ludza, Kr\u0101slava and R\u0113zekne municipalities. Latvia\u2019s National Armed Forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mil.lv\/lv\/zinas\/iespejams-apdraudejums-latvijas-gaisa-telpa-ludzas-rezeknes-un-kraslavas-novados\">stated<\/a> that there was a possible threat to the country\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the affected areas received mobile alerts. Fighter jets participating in NATO\u2019s air policing mission were activated.<\/p>\n<p>The threat was lifted at 10:15.<\/p>\n<p>An air raid alert was also <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/air-raid-alert-declared-in-lithuania-due-to-suspected-drone-approaching-from-belarus\">declared<\/a> in some areas of Lithuania due to a possible drone in Belarus near the Lithuanian border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:17 on May 20, an air raid alert was declared in three areas of Latvia \u2014 Ludza, Kr\u0101slava and R\u0113zekne municipalities. Latvia\u2019s National Armed Forces stated that there was a possible threat to the country\u2019s airspace. Residents of the affected areas received mobile alerts. Fighter jets participating in NATO\u2019s air policing mission were activated. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0d77863fc46.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Air Raid Alert Declared in Several Areas of Latvia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[143171],"class_list":["post-543757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-latvija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}