{"id":9992,"date":"2026-02-11T22:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/9992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:19:14","slug":"vilnius-airport-halts-flights-again-after-suspected-belarus-balloon-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/9992\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport halts flights again after suspected Belarus balloon incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">VILNIUS, Jan 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Vilnius Airport suspended operations again on \u200bTuesday due to suspected \u200cdisruption of Lithuania&#8217;s airspace by balloons \u200csent from Belarus, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The airport closed at 1705 GMT and was scheduled to reopen at \u20601805 GMT, \u200ca National Crisis Management Centre spokesperson told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200dairport, located some 30 km (19 miles) from the Belarusian border, has \u200bbeen closed more than 10 \u200ctimes since early October over similar incidents. It last had to shut on December 3.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lithuania says balloons are sent by \u2060smugglers transporting cigarettes from \u200bBelarus, but also \u200bblames Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of \u200dRussian \u2060President Vladimir Putin, for not stopping what it calls a \u2060form of &#8220;hybrid attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Andrius Sytas \u200cand Johan Ahlander; editing \u200cby Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VILNIUS, Jan 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Vilnius Airport suspended operations again on \u200bTuesday due to suspected \u200cdisruption of Lithuania&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[1410,171,170,2743],"class_list":{"0":"post-9992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vilnius","8":"tag-belarus","9":"tag-lithuania","10":"tag-vilnius","11":"tag-vilnius-airport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992","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=9992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}