{"id":549041,"date":"2026-06-08T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=549041"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:42:52","slug":"nato-fighter-jets-shoot-down-drone-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/nato-fighter-jets-shoot-down-drone-in-latvia","title":{"rendered":"NATO Fighter Jets Shoot Down Drone in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>French fighter jets patrolling Latvian airspace have shot down a drone for the first time, the country&#8217;s National Armed Forces said.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Allied fighter jets successfully shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace!&#8221;<\/i> the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Armed Forces, the drone entered Latvian airspace as a result of Russian electronic warfare activities.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Latvian authorities announced a potential aerial threat. An orange alert was declared in the R\u0113zekne and Ludza municipalities, while authorities also warned of a possible threat in the Al\u016bksne and Balvi municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>The alert was lifted after the announcement that the drone had been shot down.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, NATO aircraft also destroyed drones in <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/nato-fighter-jet-shoots-down-drone-in-estonian-airspace\">Estonia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French fighter jets patrolling Latvian airspace have shot down a drone for the first time, the country&#8217;s National Armed Forces said. &#8220;Allied fighter jets successfully shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace!&#8221; the statement said. According to the National Armed Forces, the drone entered Latvian airspace as a result of Russian electronic warfare activities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":549040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a26808fe640a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"NATO Fighter Jets Shoot Down Drone in Latvia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[143171,143121],"class_list":["post-549041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","tag-latvija","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549041","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=549041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}