Chaos in NATO country as airport closed for hours after 25 hot-air balloons enter airspace | World | News
Authorities, approximately 25 small hot air balloon entered the Lithuanian airspace and late on Saturday, October 4, Vilnius airport forcing the closure of the airport, he said. According to the National Crisis Management Center of the NATO and the EU member states, balloons intervened in 30 flights and affected approximately 6,000 passengers. Flights continued on Sunday at 04:50 in the morning (01:50 GMT).
It was discovered that the balloons carried a smoke that was kidnapped on the border of Moscow in Europe’s main ally Belarus, and NATO came to a high alarm after a high alarm after the interventions in the airspace reached an unprecedented scale last month. According to his spokesman Darius B butta, two of the balloons flew over the Vilnius airport. It reached Vilnius district more than two dozens. Balloons were recorded on Saturday between 20:45 and 4:30 on Sunday. Buta, in his statement to Associated Press, the border police rescued 11 balloons and 18,000 packets of illegal cigarettes in various places. In response, Lithuania declared a 60 mile -free zone parallel to the Belarus border, so that the army may react to violations.
Some European authorities tested NATO’s reaction, which describes events as Moscow, which showed questions about how ready the alliance was against Russia. The rest of Lithuania and Baltic is particularly concerned. A drone, defined as Russian -made Gerbera on July 10, flew from Belarus to Lithuania and collapsed in Vilnius County.
Another collapsed in a military education on 28 July and was found a week later. The army said it was later carrying a explosive device. After these events, Parliament voted to allow the armed forces to hit the unmanned drone violating the airspace.
Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is located about 25 miles west of the Russian ally Belarus border. Buta, Belarus smugglers, cigarettes are increasingly using more and more balloons to miss the EU.
Similar events were reported only in August by less balloon. Last year, 966 hot air ballons from Belarus were seized by Lithuanian officials. 544 this year recorded.
Buta added that both smuggling balloons and drones are criminal activities, but not as provocative or sabotage actions, Büta added.
The shootings showed strange -looking air objects that move in the dark overnight, and then a package of a large white balloon was photographed in one area.
This event comes the way that Russia already said that it was already in war with the West because of its support to Ukraine. A senior Russian official emphasized the dozens of British defense -related site, implying that they can be directly targeted by Vladimir Putin’s missiles. Dmitry Rogozin – a senator and warrior, former Deputy Prime Minister and the Chief of Space Agency – threatened to be “deadly dangerous ..
