{"id":808650,"date":"2026-05-20T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/808650\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:31:15","slug":"romania-shoots-down-ukrainian-drone-flying-over-estonia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/808650\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania shoots down Ukrainian drone flying over Estonia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday’s drone entered Estonian airspace at noon local time, the Estonian Defense Forces wrote on X<\/a>. Soon after, a Romanian F-16 training with NATO\u2019s Baltic Air Policing mission downed the drone with an air-to-air missile, under the leadership of the Latvian Control and Reporting Center.<\/p>\n

Earlier in May, a Ukrainian drone crashed into an oil depot in Latvia, leading<\/a> to the resignation of Latvia\u2019s defense minister Andris Spr\u016bds and ultimately<\/a> the collapse of the Latvian government. Tuesday\u2019s shootdown appears to be the first time a drone has been downed in Estonia.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman apologized<\/a> for the incursion on X, writing: \u201cRussia continues to redirect Ukrainian drones into the Baltics with the use of its electronic warfare.\u201d The Estonian military also wrote that the drone incursion \u201coccurred under the conditions of heavy electronic warfare, including GPS spoofing and jamming, by Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

The drone incursion comes as Russia\u2019s defense ministry announced that it had intercepted more than 70 Ukrainian drones on Tuesday. A large wave of drone attacks by Ukraine, which has been fighting against a Russian invasion for more than four years, killed several people in Moscow on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday’s drone entered Estonian airspace at noon local time, the Estonian Defense Forces wrote on X. Soon after,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":808651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[57925,128090,262,5755,56350,56353,1802,374,50,10293,257,275,103],"class_list":["post-808650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-airspace","tag-baltics","tag-defense","tag-drones","tag-estonia","tag-latvia","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-news","tag-romania","tag-russia","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116604088078158589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}