{"id":584109,"date":"2026-08-14T03:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584109\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:40:09","slug":"latvia-issues-air-threat-alert-shoots-down-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584109\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia issues air threat alert, shoots down drone"},"content":{"rendered":"

European Union and NATO<\/a> member Latvia issued an air threat alert for some of its eastern parts that border Russia and Belarus, its Armed Forces said on X\/Twitter on Friday.<\/p>\n

Less than an hour later, it ended the air threat alert, stating that allied fighter jets had shot down a drone in its airspace.<\/p>\n

Finland, which also shares a border with Russia, imposed a temporarily restricted area for aviation and maritime traffic in the eastern Gulf of Finland, its defense forces said on X.<\/p>\n

Latvia’s armed forces did not immediately provide details about the drone or its origin.<\/p>\n

Countries neighboring Russia and Ukraine issue air threat alerts and down drones from time to time as Moscow and Kyiv continue to exchange attacks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/a> in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Overnight, Russia shot down 15 drones in the Leningrad region, close to Finland and Estonia and home to St Petersburg, the country second biggest city and a major export hub, regional governor Alexander Drozdenko said on Telegram early on Friday.<\/p>\n

Russia’s northern NATO neighbors are tightening security around dams, power plants and natural gas infrastructure in a sign of mounting concern that Moscow<\/a> will stage a “false flag” attack on them using Ukrainian drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Union and NATO member Latvia issued an air threat alert for some of its eastern parts that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16606,21754,83601,3127,42,4428,43,1593,40,38,41,39,74283],"class_list":["post-584109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-drone","tag-drone-attack","tag-fighter-jets","tag-finland","tag-headlines","tag-latvia","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ukraine-russia-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}