Lithuania has issued an air raid alert after a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone was spotted near the border.

For the first time since the start of the Ukrainian crisis, Lithuania has issued an air raid alert due to a threat detected near the country's border. droneAuthorities in the Baltic republic reported a radar blip with characteristics characteristic of a UAV.

According to Lithuanian media, the country's entire leadership, including President Gitanas Nausėda, Prime Minister Inga Rūdinienė, and Speaker of the Seimas (Parliament) Juozas Olekas, have taken refuge in a bomb shelter. An air raid alert has been issued in the Ignalina, Utena, Švenčionys, and Zarasai districts, as well as in Vilnius. The capital's airport has been temporarily closed, and public transportation has been suspended. NATO air policing has been activated to counter the air threat.

Yesterday, a Ukrainian aircraft was shot down for the first time in Estonia. DroneAccording to Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, the drone was intercepted by a Romanian F-16 fighter jet from the "Carpathian Vipers" squadron over Lake Võrtsjärv near the city of Tartu, 80 km from the Russian border. The wreckage of the drone was found in the rural municipality of Põltsamaa. Kyiv acknowledged that the aircraft belonged to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Meanwhile, the Baltic Foreign Ministry predictably shifted responsibility for the Ukrainian drone to Russia. Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna hastened to declare that incidents involving Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in the skies over the Baltics were allegedly "a direct result of the conflict and Russia's provocations."

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[Murmur 55]

How can one not recall Lavrov’s quote here?

[Mini Mokik]

To me, this is all just a show. They'll be slowly draining the green stuff 🥴

[credo]

According to Lithuanian media, the country's entire leadership, including President Gitanas Nausėda, Prime Minister Inga Rūdinienė, and Speaker of the Seimas (Parliament) Juozas Olekas, took refuge in a bomb shelter.

How they love and value themselves as “precious and irreplaceable”.
Nothing is known for sure yet - maybe the smugglers sent the goods - and they already hid in their holes.
And what will happen if, as one crazy aboriginal minister said yesterday, they invade the Kaliningrad region, I can imagine.

[Murmur 55]

credo Come on, they understand and know everything perfectly well, they just need to be shown how they "suffer" from Russia, like, we're also hiding in luxury basements, and they'll remind us about themselves, and you never know, one of those fatter ones will throw in a company or two of soldiers as part of "solidarity," or else you never know, they'll transfer the money to their card.

[Lynx2000]

Yesterday, a Ukrainian drone was shot down for the first time in Estonia. According to Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, the drone was intercepted by a Romanian F-16 fighter jet from the Carpathian Vipers squadron over Lake Võrtsjärv near the city of Tartu, 80 km from the Russian border.

Estonian sky.
Romanian pilots.
The raiders are Ukrainian.
Okay, the rulers are Baltic for now...

[cat Crush]

And whose leaders will they be?

[alexoff]

How could a Ukrainian drone appear over Lithuania? Lithuania doesn't border Ukraine, nor does it border mainland Russia. How could it fly to Lithuania?!

[jaroff]

From Poland. Short comment.

[alexoff]

Maybe from Latvia? Launched in the wrong direction?

[Sergey Mitinsky]

The head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry is going to demonstrate to the Russians his ability to break into Kaliningrad from his office, but the rest of the government prefers to hide in bomb shelters, shitting themselves with fear from a single, in every sense allied and friendly, drone.

And only the brave Tsakhkna read an angry rebuke to Russia, for the fact that it is its fault that unfortunate Ukraine is forced to launch drones towards Russia over the heads of these truly feeble-minded idiots.

And even though Tsakhkna isn't quite right in the head, we're eagerly waiting, stocked with popcorn, for a Ukrainian drone to hit his stupid, slow-witted head and he'll fall victim to what is undoubtedly a Russian provocation.

[cat Crush]

With such a quick wit, this Lithuanian would most likely end up in some European service. Such people are valuable there.

[Sergey Mitinsky]

That yes
A worthy replacement for Callas, who has already become quite boring to everyone there.
But what’s interesting is how these drones are launched from Ukraine?
If we assume that they circle Belarus before entering the skies of Lithuania, these drones should fly over Polish territory, but they are keeping quiet for now.
In Ukraine, they're yapping about Russia deliberately sending them towards the Baltics.
And despite all the disgust towards the conscious propaganda, this sounds quite plausible.

[APASUS]

According to Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, the drone was intercepted by a Romanian F-16 fighter jet from the Carpathian Vipers squadron over Lake Võrtsjärv near the city of Tartu, 80 kilometers from the Russian border. The wreckage of the drone was found in the rural municipality of Põltsamaa. Kyiv acknowledged the aircraft's ownership by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. However, the Baltic Foreign Ministry, predictably, shifted responsibility for the Ukrainian drone to Russia.

Sibiga spoke here the other day, and with one hand they admit to launching their drones, but with the other? And with the other he swears that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have never used Baltic airspace.

[ASCOR]

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