{"id":33387,"date":"2026-08-18T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/33387\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:19:08","slug":"kyiv-air-alert-forces-ukraine-belgium-fms-into-bomb-shelter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/33387\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv air alert forces Ukraine, Belgium FMs into bomb shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga and his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prevot were on Tuesday forced to hold talks in an underground shelter as an air alert blared out in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDue to Russian drones attacking our capital, we held our talks underground in the @MFA_Ukraine bomb shelter \u2014 a daily reality for millions of Ukrainians, shared by our Belgian guests today,\u201d Sybiga said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He posted a picture of the two top diplomats sitting at a table in a windowless room and a video of the two delegations making their way through underground corridors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air alerts ring out in war-torn Ukraine every day as Russia launches barrages of drones and missiles at its neighbour, forcing people into shelters and killing civilians in the capital and across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a visit to Kyiv in July, European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen had to shelter briefly because of an air alert and drone threat in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga and his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prevot were on Tuesday forced to hold talks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,1608,5523],"class_list":["post-33387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-international","tag-mna"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117117187815832912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}