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VILNIUS, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Lithuania’s Vilnius airport resumed operations after balloons had forced it to close its airspace earlier, it said on Saturday, the latest in a series of interruptions of the Baltic nation’s air traffic in recent months.<\/p>\n

Air traffic restarted at 1731 GMT, the airport said.<\/p>\n

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The airport, located some 30 km (19 miles) from Belarus, has been closed more than 10 times since early October over similar incidents, and was last closed on December 3.<\/p>\n

Lithuania says<\/a> balloons are sent by smugglers transporting cigarettes from Belarus, but also blames Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, for not stopping what it calls a form of “hybrid attack”.<\/p>\n

Reporting by Andrius Sytas, Editing by Johan Ahlander and Barbara Lewis<\/p>\n

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