{"id":580972,"date":"2026-09-24T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=580972"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:37:33","slug":"italy-s-defense-minister-denies-reports-of-possible-russian-drone-attacks-on-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/italy-s-defense-minister-denies-reports-of-possible-russian-drone-attacks-on-eu","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Defense Minister Denies Reports of Possible Russian Drone Attacks on EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Italian Defense Minister <strong>Guido Crosetto<\/strong> denied reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russia-preparing-drone-attacks-against-spain-france-or-italy-media\">possible Russian drone attacks<\/a> on Italy, Spain or France published today by El Mundo.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe alarm reported this morning by a Spanish newspaper, which suggested the possibility of attacks on Italy, Spain and France by Russian ships and drones, is unnecessary and has no basis. We are already living in difficult and \u2018tense\u2019 times, and no one needs to add fuel to the fire,\u201d<\/em> he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GuidoCrosetto\/status\/2103054076661363163\">wrote<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>El Mundo previously reported that the CIA had allegedly warned European countries about possible Russian attacks on Spain, France or Italy. According to the newspaper, Russia plans to launch Gerbera drones from civilian vessels in the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto denied reports of possible Russian drone attacks on Italy, Spain or France published today by El Mundo. \u201cThe alarm reported this morning by a Spanish newspaper, which suggested the possibility of attacks on Italy, Spain and France by Russian ships and drones, is unnecessary and has no basis. We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":580971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab535b137322.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Italy\u2019s Defense Minister Denies Reports of Possible Russian Drone Attacks on EU"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580972","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=580972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580973,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580972\/revisions\/580973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}