Passengers walk past the arrival terminal in Vilnius Ciurlionis International Airport in Vilnius, Lithuania, December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Janis Laizans
VILNIUS, May 20 (Reuters) – Lithuania’s capital airport on Wednesday suspended flights due to a drone warning, the country’s national crisis management centre said.
The alert was issued in response to a drone in neighbouring Belarus that was seen flying towards Lithuania, the centre said, adding that the drone’s origin had not been confirmed.
A NATO fighter jet on Tuesday shot down a suspected Ukrainian drone over Estonia, the Baltic country said, the latest in a series of airspace violations in the region amid frequent Ukrainian attacks on neighbouring Russia.
(Reporting by Andrius Sytas, editing by Terje Solsvik)