{"id":572777,"date":"2026-09-01T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T05:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=572777"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:54:00","slug":"latvia-and-estonia-issued-air-raid-alerts-ust-luga-is-on-fire-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latvia-and-estonia-issued-air-raid-alerts-ust-luga-is-on-fire-in-russia","title":{"rendered":"Latvia and Estonia Issued Air Raid Alerts. Ust-Luga Is on Fire in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Latvia and Estonia issued air raid alerts overnight.<\/p>\n<p>In Latvia, the alert was issued twice, first at around 2 a.m. in Ludza Municipality and then at around 4 a.m. in Al\u016bksne Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/rus.lsm.lv\/statja\/novosti\/proisshestvija\/01.09.2026-vozdusnaya-trevoga-v-aluksnenskom-krae-otmenena.a661156\/\">LSM<\/a> reports, citing the National Armed Forces, a drone entered Latvian airspace and then proceeded into Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>In Estonia, an air raid alert was issued in eight counties. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/rus.err.ee\/1610124763\/v-8-uezdah-jestonii-soobwili-o-vozdushnoj-ugroze-v-nebo-byli-podnjaty-tureckie-istrebiteli\">ERR<\/a>, drones were moving along Estonia\u2019s and Latvia\u2019s eastern border, and some of them entered Estonian airspace.<\/p>\n<p>In both countries, fighter jets from NATO countries participating in Baltic airspace patrols were scrambled.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that today Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko said several dozen drones had been downed in the region. At the same time, he said the drone attack caused damage in the port area of Ust-Luga, where a fire broke out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvia and Estonia issued air raid alerts overnight. In Latvia, the alert was issued twice, first at around 2 a.m. in Ludza Municipality and then at around 4 a.m. in Al\u016bksne Municipality. As LSM reports, citing the National Armed Forces, a drone entered Latvian airspace and then proceeded into Estonia. In Estonia, an air raid [&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\/09\/6a96849d8d309.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Latvia and Estonia Issued Air Raid Alerts. Ust-Luga Is on Fire in Russia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572777","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=572777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}