Vilnius airport briefly closed, NATO scrambles jets over suspected drone from Belarus
Summary
Vilnius airport in Lithuania was closed for under an hour this morning and NATO scrambled Baltic air-policing jets after a report that a suspected drone entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus, according to Lithuania's National Crisis Management Centre. Airspace reopened shortly afterward and authorities continue investigating, amid similar recent alerts in Poland and Romania.
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ZRAČNA luka u glavnom gradu Litve, Vilniusu, bila je jutros zatvorena manje od sat vremena, a NATO je hitno podigao borbene zrakoplove svoje baltičke zračne
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- Vilnius · City / settlement
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Belarus is named as the direction from which the drone reportedly came, while Poland, Romania, Ukraine and Russia are mentioned in the context of a broader rise in incidents and sabotage on NATO's eastern flank, not as locations of this event. Moscow is mentioned as the alleged instigator of hybrid provocations.
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- 10:27 AMIndex.hrOpen the original
- 10:54 AMKurirOpen the original
- 11:19 AMOslobođenjeOpen the original
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