Lithuanian authorities said Tuesday they had arrested 21 people allegedly connected to a criminal network that smuggled cigarettes using specially equipped weather balloons from Russia-allied Belarus which have violated the Baltic country’s airspace in recent weeks.
Tensions escalated after meteorological balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport.
Euro states once occupied by the Soviet Union are controlled as pawns by British puppet-masters who don’t care for them, Moscow claims.
The main national airport of Lithuania is being repeatedly shut down by weather balloons carrying packets of contraband cigarettes.
Lithuania identified incursion into its airspace, as NATO discusses and clarifies under which circumstances it will shoot down Moscow jets.
Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some of them confirmed to be carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace late Saturday and forced the shutdown of Vilnius Airport, delaying flights for hours, authorities said.
Powerful explosions were heard in the suburbs of Lithuania’s capital Wednesday morning after several railcars caught fire.
A failed asylum seeker from Iraq has been accused of killing a 16-year-old girl in Germany by pushing her in front of an oncoming train.
China imposed sanctions in what it said was retaliation for the EU two Chinese institutions in its latest round of Russia sanctions.
Lithuania’s history in the Holocaust teaches us the dangers of extremism in politics, both left and right, which we must confront.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda were met by pro-Palestinian protests as they shook hands outside the presidential palace.
Lithuanian PM Gintautas Paluckas stepped down Thursday, following investigations into his business dealings.
Poland has activated border controls apparently after being embarrassed by citizen vigilantes taking on border defence roles themselves.
The Lithuanian Association of Hunters believes there are only five to 10 bears in the Baltic nation and refused to shoot the young female.
Lithuania’s leaders joined thousands of people on Thursday to bid farewell to four American soldiers who died during a training exercise.
A U.S. armored vehicle that went missing in Lithuania has been retrieved from a swamp after a six-day search but there is still no information about the fate of the four American soldiers who were on board, Lithuanian officials said Monday.
NATO clarified comments that suggested four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, saying the search continued.
Four Eastern European countries say they wish to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty on landmines, citing “Russia’s aggression” and “dire security challenges” on NATO’s “vulnerable eastern flank”.
European leaders flocked to Ukraine on Monday to pledge their support on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, badly rattled by President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Russia and public feud with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia was officially severed Saturday morning after officials switched off the Soviet-era grid’s transmission lines and prepared to join the rest of Europe on Sunday.
There are reportedly concerns that putting too many troops in Ukraine would leave Europe’s northeast border with Russia perilously unguarded.
“And then the main question is, what will be the next target of Russia? Ukraine, maybe. Baltic countries, maybe.”
Lithuania has decided to raise its spending on defense to between 5% and 6% of overall national economic output starting in 2026.
Poland’s Foreign Minister said Russia should be kicked out of a Cold War-era body created to de-escalate nuclear tensions.
A group of European nations issue strongly worded statement on ‘systemic attacks’ by the Russian Federation against supporters of Ukraine.
The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) urged the European Union this week to cease its financial support of Cuba’s communist regime.
President’s main tasks in the NATO-member state are foreign and defense policy, as supreme commander of the armed forces.
The legislature of Georgia approved a controversial “foreign agent” law despite massive protests in the streets and fistfights in parliament.
Belarus accuses NATO of provocations that could trigger nucelar apocalypse, and of allegedly launching ‘combat drone’ strikes against Minsk.
A Chinese container ship remains the prime suspect in causing damage last year to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline between NATO members.
NATO member Lithuania hailed “historic event” as Germany began deploying troops to the Baltic, the first time since World War II.
Leonid Volkov, Alexei Navalny’s close associate and top strategist, accused Putin´s “henchmen” of hospitalising him.
West no longer post-Cold War and is in a new “pre-war” era with limited time left to prepare for and deter future conflicts, the UK says.
Leaked German military documents have warned of a full-blown war between Russia and NATO with hundreds of thousands of troops deployed.
Zelensky has arrived in Latvia, the final stop on his Baltic mini-tour as he attempts to drum up further support and missiles.
The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said they “deeply regret the decision enabling the personal participation” of Lavrov.
Finland and Estonia said the undersea Balticconnector gas pipeline has been temporarily taken out of service due to a suspected leak.
Finland joined the three Baltic countries in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory.
Poland and the Baltic states said they will close their borders with Belarus in the event of a military incidents or a migrant push by Minsk.
Polish and Lithuanian leaders held urgent meeting in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and Russia.
