{"id":559169,"date":"2025-11-09T10:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559169\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:32:10","slug":"uk-military-to-help-protect-belgium-after-drone-incursions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559169\/","title":{"rendered":"UK military to help protect Belgium after drone incursions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 3,000 Brussels Airlines passengers were affected by the disruption, and the carrier said it faced &#8220;considerable costs&#8221; from cancelling or diverting dozens of flights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and the Belgian security services have said they suspect Russia, but Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken has previously admitted there is no accompanying evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At first, drones flying over our military bases were seen as our problem,&#8221; Francken said earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now it has become a serious threat affecting civilian infrastructure across multiple European countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 3,000 Brussels Airlines passengers were affected by the disruption, and the carrier said it faced &#8220;considerable costs&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-559169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115519287643308631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}