{"id":498188,"date":"2025-11-24T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=498188"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:21:55","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-condemns-new-smugglers-weather-balloon-raids-on-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-condemns-new-smugglers-weather-balloon-raids-on-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya Condemns New Smugglers\u2019 Weather-Balloon Raids on Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> expressed solidarity with Lithuania following a new wave of smugglers\u2019 weather-balloon incursions that twice disrupted operations at Vilnius Airport.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I strongly condemn the smugglers\u2019 balloons and Lukashenka\u2019s continued provocations. Vilnius Airport was disrupted again on Sunday.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lukashenka behaves like a gangster who understands only the language of force.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We fully stand with Lithuania in the face of these hybrid attacks<\/span>,\u201d <\/em>she wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Vilnius Airport suspended operations on Saturday evening and again during the night on Monday. According to Lithuanian authorities, radar recorded more than 40 traces corresponding to weather balloons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya expressed solidarity with Lithuania following a new wave of smugglers\u2019 weather-balloon incursions that twice disrupted operations at Vilnius Airport. \u201cI strongly condemn the smugglers\u2019 balloons and Lukashenka\u2019s continued provocations. Vilnius Airport was disrupted again on Sunday. Lukashenka behaves like a gangster who understands only the language of force. We fully stand with Lithuania [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":494609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/692415a84bd52.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya Condemns New Smugglers\u2019 Weather-Balloon Raids on Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498188","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}