{"id":88189,"date":"2026-05-21T07:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/88189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:54:30","slug":"lithuania-shuts-vilnius-airport-suspends-flights-due-to-drone-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/88189\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania shuts Vilnius airport; suspends flights due to drone warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/lithuania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lithuania<\/a> on Wednesday issued an &#8220;air danger&#8221; warning asking people to take shelter and suspended traffic at the capital&#8217;s airport amid fears of drones violating \u200cthe country&#8217;s \u2060airspace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immediately \u2060take shelter in a safe place, take care of your close ones, await new recommendations,&#8221; Lithuania&#8217;s army said in a message sent to people in the country&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear how widely \u2060the statement \u200cwas distributed.<\/p>\n<p>A warning was also issued in the <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/vilnius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vilnius<\/a> parliament building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the \u2060risk of air attack, we ask all persons in the building to go to the nearest shelter,&#8221; said an announcement on parliament&#8217;s intercom.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania&#8217;s national crisis management centre earlier said it had issued an alert in response to a \u200cdrone in neighbouring Belarus that was seen flying towards Lithuania, adding the drone&#8217;s origin had not \u2060been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>A NATO fighter jet on Tuesday shot down a suspected <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ukrainian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukrainian<\/a> drone over Estonia, the Baltic country said, the latest in a series of airspace violations in the region amid frequent Ukrainian attacks on neighbouring Russia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lithuania on Wednesday issued an &#8220;air danger&#8221; warning asking people to take shelter and suspended traffic at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[93],"tags":[46929,46928,46927,171,2744,15538,170,2743],"class_list":["post-88189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vilnius","tag-air-danger-warning-lithuania","tag-drone-threat-lithuania","tag-emergency-alert-lithuania","tag-lithuania","tag-lithuania-airport-closure","tag-ukrainian","tag-vilnius","tag-vilnius-airport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116611492344371337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88189","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=88189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}