Drone Incursions Trigger Air Alerts Across Lithuania, NATO Jets Scrambled
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Residents in several regions of both countries were called upon to visit shelters. Incidents appear to be caused by Ukrainian drone attacks on the northwest of Russia.
In Latvia and Lithuania, hundreds of thousands of people were asked to visit shelters because of unknown drones on Wednesday morning.
NATO fighter aircraft were taken into air at the Shiaulia airbase to search for a drone entering Lithuania on the night of Wednesday, reported to the head of the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) Wilmanthas Vitkauskas. "They discovered the object, but failed to shoot it down," said Witkauskas to the Lithuanian national television and radio portal LRT. "The fighter found the object, was in pretty close contact, but why the attempt to shoot…
Drone incursions trigger air alerts across Lithuania, NATO jets scrambled
Drone incursions prompted yellow and red air alerts across large parts of Lithuania overnight, with NATO fighter jets scrambled on both occasions, but the drones were not shot down and flew into Latvian airspace, Lithuanian officials said Wednesday.
A significant portion of Lithuanian residents were warned on Tuesday evening and Wednesday night about the threat of a drone that was literally tearing apart Lithuania - district after district. One Kaunas resident captured a video of the drone and a fighter jet flying after it.
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