{"id":81317,"date":"2026-05-13T07:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:04:31","slug":"lithuania-shuts-vilnius-airport-news-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81317\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania shuts Vilnius airport | News.az"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lithuania&#8217;s capital airport said on \u200bWednesday it briefly \u200chalted operations overnight following the detection of what \u200bwas believed to \u200bbe smuggler balloons from \u2060Belarus drifting into \u200bits airspace. <\/p>\n<p>Vilnius Airport said \u200bon Facebook the airspace was closed for an hour, \u200bone of over \u200ba dozen such incidents since October \u200cof \u2060last year,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> News.az<\/a> reports, citing<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/lithuania-briefly-shuts-vilnius-airport-again-blaming-smuggler-balloons-2026-05-13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania says smugglers use weather balloons to transport cigarettes \u200bacross \u200bthe \u2060border, and have also blamed Belarusian \u200bPresident Alexander Lukashenko, \u200ba \u2060close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, \u2060for \u200bnot stopping \u200bthe practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/faig-mahmudov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Faig Mahmudov<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lithuania&#8217;s capital airport said on \u200bWednesday it briefly \u200chalted operations overnight following the detection of what \u200bwas believed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[93],"tags":[561,12027,171,170],"class_list":["post-81317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vilnius","tag-airport","tag-incidents","tag-lithuania","tag-vilnius"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116565997499488784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81317","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=81317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}