{"id":1296391,"date":"2025-09-23T20:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/will-the-us-shoot-down-russian-planes-and-drones-in-nato-airspace-secretary-of-state-answers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T05:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:27:53","slug":"will-the-us-shoot-down-russian-planes-and-drones-in-nato-airspace-secretary-of-state-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/will-the-us-shoot-down-russian-planes-and-drones-in-nato-airspace-secretary-of-state-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"US Response to Russian Aircraft in NATO Airspace: Secretary of State Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the United States will not engage in shooting down Russian planes or drones that violate NATO airspace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/2025\/09\/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-tony-dokoupil-of-cbs-mornings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the press service of the department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"279\">During the interview, the journalist noted that the EU and NATO have declared their readiness to shoot down Russian drones and aircraft if necessary, and asked whether the United States would join.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"390\">\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone has discussed shooting down Russian planes unless they are attacking,\u201d Rubio replied.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"513\">He added that NATO, like the U.S., responds to similar incidents, including intercepting objects that violate airspace.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"863\">\u201cThe United States is a NATO partner, a NATO member, an important member\u2014the most important member of NATO. I think yesterday at the United Nations, our new ambassador here, Mike Waltz, made it very clear that we will work with our allies to protect every inch of NATO territory. That commitment remains unwavering,\u201d the Secretary of State added.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nato-hotove-naliakaty-rosiiu-iak-alians-protystoiatyme-provokatsiiam-kremlia\/\">the alliance is ready to &#8220;intimidate&#8221; Russia and thus warn against future provocations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As it became known, Estonia stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/try-rosiyski-mih-31-porushyly-povitrianyy-prostir-estonii\/\">three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets violated its airspace<\/a> and were there for 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Estonian Defense Ministry later reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/mih-31-zaletily-navmysne-v-estonii-zrobyly-zaiavu-shchodo-rosiyskoho-vtorhnennia\/\">the incursion of Russian MiG-31 fighters into the country&#8217;s airspace was deliberate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Russia carried out a massive attack on Ukraine, during which <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/polshcha-pid-zahrozoiu-tusk-zbere-ministriv-cherez-nichnu-povitrianu-tryvohu\/\">some drones violated Polish airspace<\/a>. As a result, NATO Secretary General Mark <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nato-rozpochne-viyskovu-operatsiiu-na-skhodi-aliansu-shcho-vona-peredbachaie-ta-iaki-resursy-zaluchat\/\">Rutte announced the launch of Operation Eastern Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\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>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the United States will not engage in shooting down Russian planes or drones that violate NATO airspace. This was reported by the press service of the department. During the interview, the journalist noted that the EU and NATO have declared their readiness to shoot down Russian drones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1258728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1296391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296391","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=1296391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296465,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296391\/revisions\/1296465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}