Residents of Vilnius were told to take shelter and Lithuania’s president and prime minister were taken to safe locations Wednesday because of an alarm over drone activity near the border with Belarus,

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys gave a wide-ranging interview that drew sharp criticism from Russian politicians over his remarks about Kaliningrad. Moscow called his words “madness.” The interview was published in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung on May 18.

The drone alert marked one of the most serious security incidents involving Baltic NATO members since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine

Nato has been forced to scramble jets in response to Russian violations of Lithuania’s airspace. Two Russian military aircraft, an Su-30 fighter jet and an II-78 refuelling tanker, flew over the Nato member state on Thursday for approximately 18 seconds ...

NATO air policing fighter jets were scrambled after a “radar signature” with characteristics typical of unmanned aerial vehicles was detected today near the Lithuanian border, the Lithuanian military said.

Lithuanian officials instructed children in schools to take shelter after an unmanned vehicle was detected crossing the border with Belarus.

He said that Russia has turned Kaliningrad into a “small fortress” equipped with air defenses and missile launchers; NATO, however, is still capable of destroying these bases in case of open conflict.