Lithuania seeks EU, US backing to pressure Minsk over smuggler balloons

Lithuania invests in tech to counter intensifying hybrid balloon threats

Lithuania’s government is investing heavily in defense technology and surveillance systems via a strategic security plan to thwart what it views as escalating hybrid attacks involving balloons and drones from Russia-allied Belarus, which rejects allegations of wrongdoing. While those neighboring nations established diplomatic relations in the early 1990s after the Soviet Union dissolved, their modern relationship is increasingly tense. Lithuania…

Lithuania seeks EU, US backing to pressure Minsk over smuggler balloons

Lithuania will press the Belarusian government, with backing from the European Union and the United States, to stop smugglers’ balloons from entering its airspace, and is prepared to impose national measures if those efforts fail, Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė said Thursday.