Lithuania’s border with Belarus to remain closed for one month
October 29, Pozirk. Lithuania’s government has decided to keep all checkpoints along its border with Belarus closed for a month until November 30, the cabinet announced Wednesday. The government said it may extend the closure.
The move comes as Lithuanian officials mull a response to incursions by weather balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes from Belarus. The incursions mask hybrid attacks to destabilize Lithuania, its President Gitanas Nausėda told journalists yesterday.
Lithuania arrests four in connection with balloons from Belarus
October 29, Pozirk. Lithuania has detained four people in connection with a recent influx of balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes from Belarus, the Baltic country’s Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė, said. LRT quoted her as saying that the detainees were taken into …
