{"id":586927,"date":"2026-10-08T16:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=586927"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:14:43","slug":"object-resembling-weapon-pointed-at-latvian-soldiers-latvia-reveals-details-of-border-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/object-resembling-weapon-pointed-at-latvian-soldiers-latvia-reveals-details-of-border-incident","title":{"rendered":"Object Resembling Weapon Pointed At Latvian Soldiers. Latvia Reveals Details Of Border Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Commander of the Latvian National Armed Forces <b>Kaspars Pud\u0101ns<\/b> has provided details of an incident on the Belarusian-Latvian border. According to him, stones and branches were thrown at Latvian servicemen, and an <i>\u201cobject resembling a weapon\u201d<\/i> was pointed at them.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pud\u0101ns, several people crossed the border and climbed over the fence. Latvian servicemen who arrived at the scene began detaining the border violators. At that point, stones began to be thrown at them from the Belarusian side.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThey began making threats, throwing stones, pieces of trees and logs at our servicemen, and an object resembling a weapon was also pointed at the soldiers,\u201d<\/i> Pud\u0101ns <a href=\"https:\/\/tv3.lv\/zinas\/latvija\/paversa-pret-karaviriem-ierocim-lidzigu-prieksmetu-atklaj-detalas-par-bistamo-incidentu-uz-robezas\/\">said<\/a> on TV3\u2019s \u201c900 Seconds\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p>Because of poor visibility and the distance, the soldiers could not confirm whether the object was actually a weapon. They retreated several meters to avoid escalation, but the migrants\u2019 attempts to cross the border were thwarted.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Latvian army reported a <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latvia-reports-provocation-armed-masked-men-herd-migrants-toward-border\">provocation on the Belarusian-Latvian border<\/a>. Armed masked people drove a group of at least 20 migrants toward the Latvian border and threatened Latvian servicemen.<\/p>\n<p>The attempted border crossing was thwarted, but several hours later, masked people entered Latvian territory, damaged a distribution cabinet, stole surveillance cameras and fled to Belarus before Latvian border guards arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commander of the Latvian National Armed Forces Kaspars Pud\u0101ns has provided details of an incident on the Belarusian-Latvian border. According to him, stones and branches were thrown at Latvian servicemen, and an \u201cobject resembling a weapon\u201d was pointed at them. According to Pud\u0101ns, several people crossed the border and climbed over the fence. Latvian servicemen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":585933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac7c1781dbc4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Object Resembling Weapon Pointed At Latvian Soldiers. Latvia Reveals Details Of Border Incident"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[143171],"class_list":["post-586927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident","tag-latvija"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586927","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=586927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586929,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586927\/revisions\/586929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}