{"id":1294709,"date":"2025-09-19T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/putin-is-testing-the-west-s-resolve-eu-and-nato-comment-on-russia-s-violation-of-estonian-airspace\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:20:16","slug":"putin-is-testing-the-west-s-resolve-eu-and-nato-comment-on-russia-s-violation-of-estonian-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/putin-is-testing-the-west-s-resolve-eu-and-nato-comment-on-russia-s-violation-of-estonian-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPutin is testing the West\u2019s resolve\u201d: EU and NATO comment on Russia\u2019s violation of Estonian airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Officials from the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance have commented on the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the head of European diplomacy, Kaia Kallas,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kajakallas\/status\/1969052214728511976\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stated<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that the incident in question is an extremely dangerous provocation by Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She emphasized that this is the third such violation of the airspace of European Union countries in a few days, which is exacerbating the situation in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am working closely with the Estonian government. We will continue to support our member states in strengthening their defense with European resources. Putin is testing the resolve of the West. We must not show weakness,\u201d the official noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/1969058467374919902\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reacted<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. According to her, the EU will respond to every provocation and invest in strengthening the eastern flank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs threats grow, so will our pressure. I urge EU leaders to swiftly approve our 19th sanctions package,\u201d the official added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In turn, NATO spokeswoman Alison Hart<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NATOpress\/status\/1969056983413080540\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">noted<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that the airspace violation is an example of Russia&#8217;s reckless behavior and the alliance&#8217;s ability to respond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She assured that NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian planes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, Estonia stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/try-rosiyski-mih-31-porushyly-povitrianyy-prostir-estonii\/\">three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets flew into its airspace without permission<\/a> and stayed there for 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance have commented on the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets. In particular, the head of European diplomacy, Kaia Kallas, stated that the incident in question is an extremely dangerous provocation by Russia. She emphasized that this is the third such violation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1259042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1294709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1259042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}