Lithuania Drones

Lithuania's president and prime minister have been taken to safe locations after a suspected drone was detected near the country's border with Belarus. Residents of Vilnius were told to take shelter, and airspace over Vilnius Airport was closed for about an hour on Wednesday. The alert came after military reports of drone activity in Belarus, though no drones were seen over Lithuania. This marks the first major alert in a NATO capital since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Lithuanian officials accuse Russia of redirecting Ukrainian drones into Baltic airspace to sow chaos and distract from Ukraine's military successes.

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