Lithuania shuts Vilnius airport again due to weather balloons

Lithuania's Vilnius airport temporarily closed on Thursday due to weather balloons flying in its vicinity, the airport said ...

European airport closes for sixth time over smuggling balloons

Lithuania has temporarily closed its main airport due to weather balloons in the sixth such incident this month. Vilnius ...

Tsikhanouskaya supports Lithuania's border closure amid Belarusian 'hybrid attacks'

In an exclusive interview with Euronews, the Belarusian opposition leader, living in exile in Lithuania, called the measure ...
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Lithuania To Shoot Down Encroaching Belarussian Balloons

The Lithuanian government plans to shoot down large balloons encroaching on its airspace from neighboring Belarus, after ...

Poland Delays Belarus Border Reopenings in Solidarity With Lithuania

VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said on Thursday that her Polish counterpart Donald Tusk has ...

From airspace violations to drone incursions: How Putin is provoking Ukraine’s European allies over land, air and sea

Multiples countries in the alliance have reported incursions by drones into their airspace in recent months, James C.

Poland said its fighter jets intercepted a Russian spy plane flying dark over the Baltic Sea

Poland's armed forces said its MiG-29s "successfully intercepted, visually identified, and escorted" the Russian Ilyushin-20 ...
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Lithuania taking action to prevent smuggler balloons from Belarus

Weather balloons carrying boxes of smuggled cigarettes have been disrupting flights in Lithuania. The situation has escalated dramatically over the past week, and the government in Vilnius has ...