Lithuania Will Defeat Balloons that Invaded the Sky: "It's Calculated Challenges to Destabilise and Test Nato's Decision"

Kronen Zeitung

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Lithauen no longer wants to watch the flight of the smuggling balloons from Belarus: In an unprecedented reaction, Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė has announced that such balloons will be shot down in the future. The so-called "hybrid attacks" had recently paralyzed operations at Vilnius Airport several times and temporarily closed the border crossings to Belarus. The measure follows a series of incidents last week: Several balloons, apparently lo…

Il Fatto Quotidiano

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Aerostatic balloons sighted in the past hours in the skies of Lithuania draw attention to the eastern front of the European Union. According to Vilnius, these are means used by Belarus to smuggle cigarettes of which the country is a producer in European countries and the government of Inga Rugiinene considers them part of a hybrid war fought by Minsk against the EU on behalf of Russia. The Belarusian opposition also gives a similar reading of wh…

Digi 24

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The Prime Minister of Lithuania, Inga Ruginienė, authorized the victory of the resistance balloons crossing the border of Belarus, Russia, calling them “hybrid attacks” a reference to the term used to describe Moscow's destabilization efforts, reports The Guardian.

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Belarusian provocations with smuggled balloons over Lithuania: the European Council's reaction has appearedThe European Union supported Lithuania in connection with the regular flights of smuggled balloons from Belarus. President of the European Council Antonio Costa assured full solidarity with the people of Lithuania and called on Belarus to stop hybrid activities.

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The European Commission is aware of incidents in Lithuania involving meteorological probes launched from Belarus, but refuses to speculate on how to respond to them.