{"id":493514,"date":"2025-10-27T00:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=493514"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:49:51","slug":"vilnius-airport-halts-operations-again-due-to-balloons-lithuania-closes-border-crossings-with-belarus-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-halts-operations-again-due-to-balloons-lithuania-closes-border-crossings-with-belarus-indefinitely","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport Halts Operations Again Due to Balloons; Lithuania Closes Border Crossings With Belarus Indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, October 26, from 11:10 p.m. Belarusian time, the passage of vehicles and people through the Medininkai and \u0160al\u010dininkai border checkpoints was \u201ctemporarily suspended\u201d due to balloons entering Lithuanian airspace from Belarus, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service reported.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the latest balloon incidents, Vilnius Airport has also suspended operations.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAs of 9:42 p.m. this evening, aircraft operations at Vilnius Airport have been temporarily halted. According to initial reports, the decision to impose airspace restrictions was prompted by a balloon (or balloons) flying toward the airport. The airspace restrictions will remain in effect until 1:40 a.m.,\u201d<\/i> the airport\u2019s press service said. The time cited refers to Lithuanian local time.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian Interior Minister <strong>Vladislavas Kondratovi\u010dius<\/strong> announced that the border crossings with Belarus have been closed indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cA decision has been made to close two border checkpoints with Belarus \u2014 \u0160al\u010dininkai and Medininkai \u2014 indefinitely, until a separate decision by the National Security Commission,\u201d<\/i> Kondratovi\u010dius wrote on Facebook late Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the fourth closure of border checkpoints with Belarus in the past four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, October 26, from 11:10 p.m. Belarusian time, the passage of vehicles and people through the Medininkai and \u0160al\u010dininkai border checkpoints was \u201ctemporarily suspended\u201d due to balloons entering Lithuanian airspace from Belarus, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service reported. Amid the latest balloon incidents, Vilnius Airport has also suspended operations. \u201cAs of 9:42 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68fe97849751f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius Airport Halts Operations Again Due to Balloons; Lithuania Closes Border Crossings With Belarus Indefinitely"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493514","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\/493514","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=493514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}