{"id":518589,"date":"2026-02-17T22:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=518589"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:31:25","slug":"vilnius-airport-closed-again-over-weather-balloons-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-closed-again-over-weather-balloons-from-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport Closed Again Over Weather Balloons From Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Vilnius Airport temporarily suspended operations due to what was described as a hybrid attack from Belarus. The restrictions were in place from 20:30 to 21:30 Lithuanian time (21:30\u201322:30 Belarusian time).<\/p>\n<p>The measures were introduced after navigation marks characteristic of weather balloons were detected, the airport\u2019s press service reported.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, weather balloons from Belarus have also drifted into Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vilnius Airport temporarily suspended operations due to what was described as a hybrid attack from Belarus. The restrictions were in place from 20:30 to 21:30 Lithuanian time (21:30\u201322:30 Belarusian time). The measures were introduced after navigation marks characteristic of weather balloons were detected, the airport\u2019s press service reported. In recent days, weather balloons from Belarus [&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\/2026\/02\/699578e2007bd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius Airport Closed Again Over Weather Balloons From Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518589","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\/518589","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=518589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518589\/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=518589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}