66 objects spotted on radars overnight leading to fourth closure of airport in a week as prime minister says any more balloons will be shot down
We are just getting first lines from the Lithuanian prime minister, Inga Ruginienė, following this morning’s security council meeting.
The government will pursue a plan to close its border with Belarus “except for diplomats and EU citizens leaving Belarus,” she said, and pledged to shoot down any further balloons disrupting the Lithuanian airspace.
“This is how we send a signal to Belarus and say that no hybrid attack will be tolerated here, we will take all the strictest measures to stop such attacks,” she said in comments reported by public broadcaster LRT.
Lithuania’s Ruginienė also said that the country was not ruling out the possibility it could call for Nato’s Article 4 consultations, Reuters reported.
