{"id":493298,"date":"2025-10-24T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=493298"},"modified":"2025-10-25T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:32:48","slug":"vilnius-and-kaunas-airports-suspend-operations-due-to-weather-balloons-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-and-kaunas-airports-suspend-operations-due-to-weather-balloons-from-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius And Kaunas Airports Suspend Operations Due To Weather Balloons From Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Airports in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania, have suspended operations after meteorological balloons were detected flying toward them from Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Air traffic at Vilnius Airport was halted from 20:31 until 2:00 on October 25, while operations at Kaunas Airport were suspended from 20:36 until 2:00.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania also temporarily closed border checkpoints with Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on the night of October 22, Vilnius Airport had also suspended operations due to weather balloons coming from Belarus. The border was closed from 2:30 to 9:00. Lithuania has said it is prepared to close the border for a longer period if the situation with the balloons repeats. Belarus was handed a note of protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airports in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania, have suspended operations after meteorological balloons were detected flying toward them from Belarus. Air traffic at Vilnius Airport was halted from 20:31 until 2:00 on October 25, while operations at Kaunas Airport were suspended from 20:36 until 2:00. Lithuania also temporarily closed border checkpoints with Belarus. Earlier, on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68fc6f153452c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius And Kaunas Airports Suspend Operations Due To Weather Balloons From Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493298","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=493298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}