NATO jets shoot down drone over Lithuania after Belarus airspace incursion

The incident comes just two days after Lithuania temporarily closed Vilnius airport following a suspected drone sighting. NATO sent a fighter jet from Siauliai to investigate, but the objects were later identified as a flock of birds and the airport reopened within 38 minutes.

New Delhi: NATO fighter jets shot down an unidentified drone after it violated Lithuania’s airspace early Tuesday, in the first such incident of its kind in the country, Lithuanian officials said.

The drone was destroyed near the village of Pratkunai, close to Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, after it entered the country’s airspace from the........

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