{"id":541701,"date":"2026-05-13T08:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=541701"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:16:01","slug":"vilnius-airport-closed-overnight-due-to-smugglers-weather-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-closed-overnight-due-to-smugglers-weather-balloons","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport Closed Overnight Due to Smugglers\u2019 Weather Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Vilnius Airport was again shut down overnight today because of smugglers\u2019 weather balloons. The Lithuanian capital\u2019s airport was closed for one hour, from 2:16 a.m. to 3:16 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The airport suspended operations <em>&#8220;in connection with a hybrid attack carried out by Belarus against Lithuania, civil aviation and the population, following the detection of navigation signals characteristic of balloons in zones posing elevated risks to aviation&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Two flights were affected. One flight had to be cancelled, while another was redirected to Copenhagen Airport. In total, 128 passengers were affected by the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>The previous disruption to operations at Vilnius Airport was recorded in early April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vilnius Airport was again shut down overnight today because of smugglers\u2019 weather balloons. The Lithuanian capital\u2019s airport was closed for one hour, from 2:16 a.m. to 3:16 a.m. The airport suspended operations &#8220;in connection with a hybrid attack carried out by Belarus against Lithuania, civil aviation and the population, following the detection of navigation signals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"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\/05\/6a0433452e756.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius Airport Closed Overnight Due to Smugglers\u2019 Weather Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-541701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541701","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=541701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541701\/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=541701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}