Dozens of balloons carrying illegal cigarettes entered Lithuania’s airspace last week, prompting the country to close its border with Belarus in response.

NATO allies have intercepted a third Russian aircraft this week—and again with its transponder turned off as it approached ...

"We stand in full solidarity with Lithuania. Balloon incursions into Lithuanian airspace from Belarus that disrupt civilian ...

EADaily, October 31st, 2025. Roman Protasevich is an employee of the Belarusian intelligence service. This was announced ...

In response to a question from journalists, President Aleksandr Lukashenko stated that Lithuanians themselves were throwing cigarettes ...

From Japan to Norway, probing by Russian war jets and drones is provoking a harder line by America’s allies. Mr. Brooke has ...

Hybrid attacks are continuing. Once again, operations at Vilnius Airport have stopped, causing major inconvenience for ...

Lithuania closed its airspace over Vilnius for two and a half hours after balloons were spotted near the airport, impacting ...

Here is how things stand on Friday, October 31, 2025: Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces took control of the villages of Krasnohirske in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region and Sadove in the Kharkiv ...

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 ...

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

VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania's Vilnius airport temporarily closed on Thursday due to weather balloons flying in its vicinity, the airport said in a post on Facebook, the sixth such incident this month ...