The airport in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius was closed again on the evening of 30 October for the first time this week ...

Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė has said her government has made a decision to close the border with Belarus ...

“A transmitter on the radiosonde sends the data back to tracking equipment on the ground every one to two seconds. By ...

Lithuania's Vilnius airport temporarily closed on Thursday due to weather balloons flying in its vicinity, the airport said in a post on Facebook, the sixth such incident this month.

Balloons packed with smuggled cigarettes keep drifting into Lithuania from Belarus, causing travel chaos. Prime Minister Inga ...

Lithuania has temporarily closed its main airport due to weather balloons in the sixth such incident this month. Vilnius ...

Dr. Hassan Shahidi, a 40-year-veteran in the aviation industry, and former Navy fighter pilot Matthew 'Whiz' Buckley ...

This image was posted on X by Scott Manley and shows a WindBorne weather balloon payload (left) and the United Airlines 737’s ...

Lithuania temporarily closed Vilnius airspace on October 30, 2025, after smuggling balloons were spotted – the sixth incident ...

Inga Ruginiene says she is taking the "strictest measures" over the balloons, used to transport cigarettes from Belarus.

The helium balloons lofted by smugglers came across the Belarusian border and shutdown air traffic until early Saturday ...

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