{"id":492416,"date":"2025-10-22T07:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=492416"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:37:04","slug":"lithuanian-border-guard-suspends-operations-at-border-checkpoints-due-to-weather-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-border-guard-suspends-operations-at-border-checkpoints-due-to-weather-balloons","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Border Guard Suspends Operations at Border Checkpoints Due to Weather Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania\u2019s State Border Guard Service (SBGS) commented on the suspension of operations at the Medininkai and \u0160al\u010dininkai checkpoints on the border with Belarus. The SBGS said the decision was made on Wednesday evening by Commander <strong>Rustamas Liubajevas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is a measure to ensure Lithuania\u2019s security, related to the launching of balloons from Belarus into Lithuania at night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At such hours, traffic and flows through both of the above-mentioned checkpoints are minimal. No special events or incidents related to the closures were observed either on their premises or on approaches to them until Wednesday morning,\u201d<\/em> the border guard service said.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, from the evening of October 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-resumes-operations-at-6-40-a-m\">Vilnius Airport was closed<\/a> due to meteorological balloons flying toward the Lithuanian capital from the Belarusian side. Thirty flights were affected and more than 4,000 passengers were impacted. The airport only resumed operations in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania\u2019s State Border Guard Service (SBGS) commented on the suspension of operations at the Medininkai and \u0160al\u010dininkai checkpoints on the border with Belarus. The SBGS said the decision was made on Wednesday evening by Commander Rustamas Liubajevas. \u201cThis is a measure to ensure Lithuania\u2019s security, related to the launching of balloons from Belarus into Lithuania [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68f85f75a0b9c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Border Guard Suspends Operations at Border Checkpoints Due to Weather Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}