{"id":568023,"date":"2026-08-14T08:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=568023"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:42:09","slug":"nato-fighters-shoot-down-drone-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/nato-fighters-shoot-down-drone-in-latvia","title":{"rendered":"NATO Fighters Shoot Down Drone In Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>NATO fighter jets shot down a drone in Latvia&#8217;s Balvi Municipality overnight.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/rus.lsm.lv\/statja\/novosti\/proisshestvija\/14.08.2026-vozdusnaya-ugroza-na-vostoke-latvii-otmenena-v-balvskom-krae-sbit-dron.a658765\">LSM<\/a>, citing <strong>Iveta B\u0113rzi\u0146a<\/strong>, a representative of the Joint Staff of the National Armed Forces, the drone was shot down at a high altitude, so its debris may be scattered over a large area. The area is being surveyed.<\/p>\n<p>An air raid alert was declared in five regions of Latvia overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The drone was flying deeper into Latvian territory. Its trajectory may have been altered.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an attack on Russia&#8217;s Leningrad Region overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO fighter jets shot down a drone in Latvia&#8217;s Balvi Municipality overnight. According to LSM, citing Iveta B\u0113rzi\u0146a, a representative of the Joint Staff of the National Armed Forces, the drone was shot down at a high altitude, so its debris may be scattered over a large area. The area is being surveyed. An air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":568022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a7ec6d5a3e42.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"NATO Fighters Shoot Down Drone In Latvia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[143121],"class_list":["post-568023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568023","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=568023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}