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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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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,”<\/em> the warning read. The deputies from the Seimas were also led to an underground shelter.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Subsequently, the Ministry of Defense announced that the airspace was violated by a drone flying west of Vilnius, then changed its direction.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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