{"id":13674,"date":"2025-09-25T04:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/eu-chief-says-shooting-down-russian-jets-on-the-table\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:21:04","slug":"eu-chief-says-shooting-down-russian-jets-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/eu-chief-says-shooting-down-russian-jets-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"EU chief says shooting down Russian jets &#8216;on the table&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that shooting down Russian fighter planes entering NATO airspace is &ldquo;on the table.&rdquo;  &ldquo;My opinion is we have to defend every square centimeter [of] territory, and that means if there&#8217;s an intrusion in the airspace, after warning&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5520749-nato-airspace-russian-jets\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that shooting down Russian fighter planes entering NATO airspace is &ldquo;on the table.&rdquo; &ldquo;My opinion is we have to defend every square centimeter [of] territory, and that means if there&#8217;s an intrusion in the airspace, after warning&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}