{"id":74157,"date":"2026-05-29T06:13:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/first-thing-nato-ready-to-defend-every-inch-of-territory-as-russian-drone-hits-romania\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:13:43","slug":"first-thing-nato-ready-to-defend-every-inch-of-territory-as-russian-drone-hits-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/first-thing-nato-ready-to-defend-every-inch-of-territory-as-russian-drone-hits-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Nato ready to defend \u2018every inch\u2019 of territory as Russian drone hits Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rutte says Moscow\u2019s \u2018reckless behaviour is a danger to us all\u2019 after drone hit apartments during attack on Ukraine. Plus, Paul McCartney on how old bandmates \u2013 and Oasis \u2013 inspired his nostalgic new album<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, has said the alliance is \u201cready to defend every inch\u201d of its territory after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/29\/russian-drone-romanian-apartments-wounding-two-people-and-starting-fire\">Russian drone hit an apartment building in Romania<\/a>, a member state, during an overnight attack on neighbouring Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What else is happening?<\/strong> Sweden will donate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/29\/ukraine-war-briefing-gripen-jet-deal-sweden-zelenskyy\">16 of its Gripen fighter jets<\/a> by next year to Ukraine, which will go on to buy an initial 20 of the latest model, they announced on Thursday, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited an airbase in Uppsala, 45 miles (70km) north of Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did Netanyahu say?<\/strong> The Israeli prime minister, who is struggling for his political survival before elections in the next few months, said: \u201cWe are currently squeezing Hamas. We now control 60% of the territory in the strip. You know, we were at 50, we moved to 60. My directive is to move to \u2026 70%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/29\/first-thing-nato-ready-to-defend-as-russian-drone-hits-romania\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rutte says Moscow\u2019s \u2018reckless behaviour is a danger to us all\u2019 after drone hit apartments during attack on Ukraine. Plus, Paul McCartney on how old bandmates \u2013 and Oasis \u2013 inspired his nostalgic new album Good morning. The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, has said the alliance is \u201cready to defend every inch\u201d of &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Nato ready to defend \u2018every inch\u2019 of territory as Russian drone hits Romania\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/first-thing-nato-ready-to-defend-every-inch-of-territory-as-russian-drone-hits-romania\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Nato ready to defend \u2018every inch\u2019 of territory as Russian drone hits Romania\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}