The Lithuanian army urged the population to take shelter in several regions of the country on Wednesday morning due to a drone alert. Flights were suspended at Vilnius airport, and both the Prime Minister and the President were evacuated.
The residents of the capital received a message from the army on their mobile phones around 10:20 local time. “Air raid alert! Immediately go to a shelter or a safe place, take care of your family members and wait for further recommendations,” the warning read. The deputies from the Seimas were also led to an underground shelter.
The alert from Lithuania comes a day after a drone was shot down in Estonia by an F-16 plane piloted by a Romanian, notes news.ro.
Subsequently, the Ministry of Defense announced that the airspace was violated by a drone flying west of Vilnius, then changed its direction.
The National Crisis Management Center of Lithuania then declared that it had issued an alert in response to the presence of a drone flying towards Lithuania from the airspace of Belarus, a state of Russia in the war against Ukraine.