A MAJOR European airport has been forced to suspend operations due to another unusual drone appearance nearby. Lithuania’s largest airport was shutdown this morning in the third serious case

Two of the largest airports in Belgium were brought to a standstill earlier this week following suspicious drone sightings.

Hybrid attacks are continuing. Once again, operations at Vilnius Airport have stopped, causing major inconvenience for passengers,' says President Gitanas Nauseda - Anadolu Ajansı

The airport in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius was closed again on the evening of 30 October for the first time this week due to weather balloons carrying contraband entering from Belarus. Details: Vilnius airport did not accept or dispatch flights for around three hours on the evening of 30 October because of the presence of weather balloons from Belarus in its airspace.

Lithuania temporarily closed Vilnius airspace on October 30, 2025, after smuggling balloons were spotted – the sixth incident of its type in a month.

Vilnius Airport in Lithuania was temporarily closed due to the presence of weather balloons, an incident blamed on smugglers and indirectly on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. This marks the sixth occurrence this month,

Lithuania's Vilnius airport temporarily closed on Thursday due to weather balloons flying in its vicinity, the airport said in a post on Facebook, the sixth such incident this month. Lithuania has said the balloons are sent by smugglers transporting contraband cigarettes,

On the evening of6, Vilnius airport temporarily suspended operations again due to the appearance of balloons approaching the flight zone. This is the

Flights at Lithuania's main airport have been disrupted on two successive nights in the latest of a string of incidents involving suspected sightings of balloons used to smuggle cigarettes from neighboring Belarus.

Lithuania has temporarily closed its main airport due to weather balloons in the sixth such incident this month. Vilnius Airport confirmed it had been forced to close again on Thursday due to the balloons flying in its vicinity.

Dozens of balloons used by smugglers to transport cigarettes from Belarus into Lithuania forced the temporary closure of Vilnius airport overnight on Tuesday