{"id":16661,"date":"2026-02-17T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/16661\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:10:09","slug":"weather-balloons-from-belarus-disrupt-vilnius-airport-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/16661\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Balloons from Belarus Disrupt Vilnius Airport Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Vilnius Airport in Lithuania experienced an operational halt at 6:30 p.m. GMT Tuesday evening. The halt was caused by Belarusian weather balloons entering Lithuanian airspace, leading to the closure of the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Located approximately 30 kilometers from Belarus, Vilnius Airport has faced over ten such disruptions since early October 2025, as weather balloons from the neighboring country continue to intrude.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities from Lithuania&#8217;s crisis management center are on high alert, closely monitoring the airspace, and taking necessary actions to ensure safe air travel amid these recurring intrusions.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Vilnius Airport in Lithuania experienced an operational halt at 6:30 p.m. GMT Tuesday evening. The halt was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[93],"tags":[4263,3974,1410,12069,12068,171,12071,12070,170,2743,2747],"class_list":["post-16661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vilnius","tag-airspace","tag-aviation","tag-belarus","tag-crisis-management","tag-disruption","tag-lithuania","tag-october-2025","tag-operational-halt","tag-vilnius","tag-vilnius-airport","tag-weather-balloons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}