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Lithuania's Vilnius airport resumed operations on Thursday evening, after closing for more than an hour due to smugglers' balloons again appearing on radar, Lithuania's National Crisis Management Centre said.

It marks the sixth time this month that Vilnius has had to halt air traffic over what senior EU officials described as a “hybrid threat.”

Lithuanian prosecutors said they uncovered a Russia-linked network of suspects who are alleged to have planned and organized arson attacks in various European countries.

Lithuania is calling on NATO to help strengthen its air defenses after a drone carrying 2 kilograms of explosives entered the country from Belarus and crashed in a military training area.

Lithuania Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas stepped down on Thursday following investigations into his business dealings that prompted protests in the Baltic country’s capital calling for his resignation.

Fighter jets already airborne as part of the NATO Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission were scrambled to respond to the incident when the object fell to the ground, approximately 1 kilometre from the border with Belarus.

As Russia and the US debate Ukraine’s future, countries on the Baltic Sea are ramping up preparations for a military conflict amid fears that Russia is preparing for a future war with NATO.

Europe’s Baltics are bracing for cyberattacks as they plan to decouple from a Soviet-era joint power grid with Russia and Belarus this weekend.

Lithuania said on Wednesday it has ramped up security around the country's electricity link with Poland ahead of a planned decoupling next month of the Baltic region's power systems from a Soviet-era grid shared with Rus...

A team of Lithuanian investigators recovered the black boxes from Monday's deadly cargo plane crash, as they began their probe into what caused the aircraft to go down and worked to clear the crash site.

Lithuania on Monday began construction of a military base, which will accommodate up to 4,000 combat-ready German troops once completed by the end of 2027, in the first permanent foreign deployment for the German militar...

Baltic leaders reacted warily on Wednesday to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region. Leaders around the Baltic Sea reacted warily on Wednesday to reports that Russia could r...

Lithuania is holding a presidential election on Sunday at a time when Russian gains on the battlefield in Ukraine are fueling greater fears across all of Europe about Moscow’s intentions, but particularly in the strategi...

Leonid Volkov, the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s close associate and top strategist, has Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “henchmen” of being behind a brutal attack that left him hospitalize...

As the Baltic states have recently agreed to create a common defense line on the Russian and Belarusian border, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says the move comes in preparation for a possible attack...

Leaders of the two Nato countries say they expect provocations from their neighbouring Russian ally and Wagner fighters

In a letter seen by Euronews, authorities have asked Russians living in the country who rightfully owns Crimea and their views on the Ukraine war.

Lithuania has disconnected all of its connections to the Russian electricity grid for the first time. According to the Lithuanian operator Litgrid, the grid of the Baltic country will be operated completely independently...