Lithuania closes border with Belarus on balloon breaches

Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene spoke at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 7. On Monday, she announced that Lithuania would close its border with Belarus after several balloons have invaded her country's airspace. Photo by...

Meeting of the Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Lithuania

On October 29, 2025, during the visit to the Republic of Lithuania, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Ahmet Gurbanov had a meeting with Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Vidmantas Verbickas. During the...

Lithuania shuts border with Belarus over ‘Lukashenko’s hybrid attacks’

Lithuania will close its border with Belarus and shoot down smuggler balloons after repeated violations of its airspace. Inga Ruginienė, the country’s prime minister, called the recent incidents “hybrid attacks” by Minsk, and said she will...

Lithuania to shoot down smuggler balloons, shut Belarus border crossings

Lithuania says balloons disrupting air traffic are sent by smugglers transporting contraband cigarettes from Belarus into the EU. Published On 27 Oct 202527 Oct 2025 Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene has said Lithuania will start to shoot down...

Lithuania begins allowing certain citizens to cross border with Belarus

MINSK, October 27. /TASS/. Lithuania has begun allowing certain categories of citizens to cross the border with Belarus at the Medininkai checkpoint (known as Kamenny Log in Belarus), the Belarusian State Customs Committee press service reported....

Putin Can't Get Peace From The Capture Of Moscow By The Ancestors Of Belarusians

13 Russian dictator laid flowers at the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the monument to Kuzma Minin and Dmitri Pozharsky, located on Red Square. This is reported on the website of the...

Lithuania authorises shooting down of smuggling balloons from Belarus

Lithuania’s prime minister has authorised the shooting down of smuggling balloons that cross the border from Russia’s ally Belarus, calling them “hybrid attacks” in an echo of the term used to describe Moscow’s destabilisation efforts. Incursions...

Lithuania to permanently shut border with Belarus after onslaught of smugglers’ balloons

Lithuanian authorities shut down airspace over Vilnius four times last week and three times over the weekend due to balloons from Belarus violating the country’s airspace. More than 170 flights were disrupted, affecting more than 30,000...

Lithuania Closes Border With Putin-Puppet Belarus Citing ‘Hybrid Attacks’

The main national airport of Lithuania is being repeatedly shut down by weather balloons carrying packets of contraband cigarettes being floated over from Russia-ally Belarus and they will now be shot down, the nation’s Prime Minister has vowed....

Lithuania will shoot down Belarus smuggler balloons, prime minister says

Lithuania's Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said on Monday her country will begin to shoot down smuggler balloons crossing the border from Belarus, which have repeatedly interrupted the Baltic nation's air traffic, APA reports, citing Reuters. NATO...

Lithuania says it will shoot down Belarus smuggler balloons disrupting air traffic

Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport four times last week after balloons entered its airspace, and each time temporarily shut its Belarus border crossings in response to the incidents. Lithuania has said balloons are sent by smugglers transporting...

Vilnius and Kaunas airports shut after contraband balloons enter airspace

Two of Lithuania’s main airports were shut down three times during the weekend of October 25–26, 2025, after weather balloons, which were used to smuggle cigarettes from neighboring Belarus, illegally entered the country’s airspace. These...

Lithuania Shuts Border With Putin-Allied Belarus Over Smuggler Balloons

LOADINGERROR LOADING VILNIUS, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Lithuania’s Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said on Monday her country will begin to shoot down smuggler balloons crossing the border from Belarus, which have repeatedly interrupted the Baltic...

Lithuania to close Belarus border and shoot down balloons after repeated airport shutdowns

100Lithuania will close its border with Belarus “for an indefinite period” and authorise the military to shoot down balloons entering its airspace, after three consecutive nights of flight disruptions at Vilnius and a fourth shutdown within a...

Could free public buses work in the UAE?

Should public buses be free? Cities and countries across the world have experimented with such schemes for years. The latest advocate is New York's newly-elected mayor Zohran Mamdani, who pledged faster and free buses in the city as part of his...

Cyprus Business Now: foreign-controlled companies, tourism, RIF, wages

Average monthly earnings in Cyprus continued to rise during the second quarter of 2025, with gross salaries increasing by 4.2 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to provisional figures released by the Cyprus Statistical...

'Patriotic' travel: Which Europeans are least likely to leave their home turf?

Published on 28/10/2025 - 9:02 GMT+1 •Updated 10:12 When travelling, EU citizens show a clear preference for domestic travel (71%) over intra-EU (21%) and extra-EU travel (8%). Spaniards are the most "loyal" to their country, according to the...

Lithuanian man caught with ‘colossal’ amount of cannabis in rural Roscommon ordered to leave Ireland after jail term

Evaldas Juknevicus (42) was caught with over €750,000 of cannabis at a growhouse near Loughlynn, County Roscommon Evaldas Juknevicus (42) of 12, Millbrook, Portlaoise, County Laois, was a “promising” motorcyclist who was “recruited” into a “highly...

The most haunted destination in the world revealed - and millions of tourists visit it every year

For thrill-seeking globetrotters chasing chills and spooky spirits this Halloween, the world's most haunted destinations have been unveiled. From cursed castles to ghost-inhabited prisons, these eerie locations draw millions of brave visitors each...

Lithuanian Opposition Urged To Take Tough Measures Because Of Balloons From Belarus

3 Saulius Skvernialis Photo: LRT It's not smuggling, it's purposeful provocation. Air traffic was suspended at Vilnius airport on Saturday for the third time this week. Representatives of the parliamentary opposition are criticizing the government...