{"id":167288,"date":"2025-12-08T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167288\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"lithuanian-government-to-consider-a-state-of-emergency-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167288\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian government to consider a state of emergency tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December<\/strong><strong> 8,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;The government of Lithuania will hold a conference on December 9 to decide whether to announce a state of emergency over incursions by balloons launched by cigarette smugglers from Belarus, <em>BNS<\/em> quoted Ignal Dobrovolskas, an advisor to the prime minister, as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lithuanian interior ministry registered a draft resolution on a state on emergency on December 5, <em>LRT<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it is announced, the operation against the so-called \u201chybrid attacks\u201d would be led by Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovi\u010d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions between Belarus and Lithuania over cigarette-smuggling balloons have been rising since mid-October, forcing Lithuanian authorities to briefly close the border on several occasions and suspend operations at Vilnius Airport, located close to the Belarusian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Lithuanian Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovi\u010d said that nearly 600 weather balloons and 197 drones had been spotted in Lithuania since January, with tensions rising significantly since October. The incidents disrupted hundreds of flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vilnius is looking forward to the arrival of the NATO support group for repelling hybrid attacks, Lithuanian Foreign Minister K\u0119stutis Budrys told NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in a phone call four days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minsk is not combating smugglers and is deliberately attacking Vilnius Airport with contraband balloons in order to disrupt its operations, Budrys noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/akcija_shary_4_POZ_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/akcija_shary_4_POZ_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/akcija_shary_4_POZ_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/akcija_shary_4_POZ_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/akcija_shary_4_POZ_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/akcija_shary_4_POZ_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Belarusians protest against balloon incursions near embassy in Vilnius<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">December 8, Pozirk. Several dozen Lithuania-based Belarusians gathered yesterday outside the Belarusian embassy in Vilnius to protest against regular violations of Lithuanian airspace by cigarette-smuggling balloons launched from Belarus. The regimes of Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and Russian President Vladimir Putin use &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/167246\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 8,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;The government of Lithuania will hold a conference on December 9 to decide whether to announce a state of emergency over incursions by balloons launched by cigarette smugglers from Belarus, BNS quoted Ignal Dobrovolskas, an advisor to the prime minister, as saying. 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