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.

The document introduces restrictions on the movement of natural persons and transport via the border crossing Medininkai (Kamenny Log on the Belarusian side) till 01:00 Belarusian time on 1 December 2025.

Lithuania accuses Belarus and Russia of a "deliberate escalation of hybrid warfare" as balloons shut down major airport.

For the third night in a row, Lithuania, one of NATO’s front-line member states, was forced to close its main airports after strange balloon from Belarus entered its airspace. Officials confirmed that Vilnius Airport had to suspend operations late Sunday night,