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Lithuania told residents to seek shelter after detecting flying object
CNBC • • world
Key Points:
- Lithuania issued a shelter-in-place order for residents in central and northern areas after an unidentified flying object, likely a drone, entered its airspace from Poland on Sunday morning.
- NATO scrambled air police fighters to the area, temporarily closed Kaunas airport, but did not engage the object due to cloudy weather and inability to visually identify it.
- Lithuanian authorities found possible drone debris near Juodzionys village, with some debris striking a civilian vehicle, and have proposed a joint investigation with Poland.
- Poland is also investigating a potential airspace violation, while Latvia issued a brief "yellow" air warning in border regions due to a possible threat.
- The incident follows recent occurrences of Ukrainian drones entering Baltic NATO airspace, which Kyiv attributes to Russian signal jamming causing navigation errors.
