{"id":8422,"date":"2026-02-10T19:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8422\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:35:15","slug":"russian-warplanes-breach-nato-airspace-in-dangerous-provocation-over-estonia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8422\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian warplanes breach NATO airspace in \u2018dangerous provocation\u2019 over Estonia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow&#8217;s attacks were expanding into new countries and directions. &#8220;They use every tool: from interference in political processes, as in Romania and Moldova, to violations of airspace, as in Poland, Romania, and now Estonia,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1969101009092813122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said in a post<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a systematic Russian campaign directed against Europe, against NATO, against the West. And it requires a systemic response,&#8221; Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Poland reported more than a dozen drones crossed its border overnight, with some heading toward the strategic hub of Rzesz\u00f3w. Polish forces, backed by NATO allies, shot down several drones and later also invoked NATO&#8217;s Article 4. Warsaw called the incident a deliberate Russian provocation.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 12, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte announced the launch of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/nato-to-bolster-eastern-flank-after-russian-drone-incursion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cEastern Sentry\u201d mission<\/a>\u00a0to bolster defenses on the alliance\u2019s eastern flank in response to the Russian drone incursion.<\/p>\n<p>Romania has also faced repeated violations, including a drone tracked for nearly 50 minutes in its airspace in mid-September. Fragments from earlier Russian attacks in Ukraine have repeatedly landed on Romanian territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Announcing a new round of EU sanctions on Russian energy and financial transactions on Friday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen deplored that in recent days &#8220;Russian drones have violated our union&#8217;s airspace, both in Poland and in Romania.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow&#8217;s attacks were expanding into new countries and directions. &#8220;They use every tool:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[89],"tags":[4263,1911,167,1112,7003,7004,238,166,241,546],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallinn","tag-airspace","tag-baltics","tag-estonia","tag-missiles","tag-missions","tag-policing","tag-russia","tag-tallinn","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}