{"id":543435,"date":"2026-05-18T22:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=543435"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:48:28","slug":"lithuania-submits-additional-materials-to-icao-on-weather-balloons-entering-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuania-submits-additional-materials-to-icao-on-weather-balloons-entering-from-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Submits Additional Materials to ICAO on Weather Balloons Entering From Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania has submitted additional materials to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) containing evidence of a hybrid attack by Belarus against Lithuanian civil aviation, the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications <a href=\"https:\/\/sumin.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/icao-perduoti-papildomi-irodymai-del-vykdomos-hibridines-atakos-pries-lietuva-5CrI\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe Ministry of Transport appealed to the International Civil Aviation Organization and the European Commission back in October, immediately after the intensive hybrid attack began. Now we are taking another important step by presenting additional evidence of Belarus\u2019 unlawful actions against Lithuania that pose a threat to civil aviation safety,\u201d<\/i> Deputy Transport Minister <b>Roderikas \u017diobakas<\/b> said.<\/p>\n<p>The collected materials confirm that weather balloons launched from Belarusian territory systematically violate Lithuania\u2019s airspace and pose a real threat to civilian aircraft and passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania\u2019s Transport Ministry recalled that since October 2025, Vilnius Airport has suspended operations at least 20 times because of incoming balloons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania has submitted additional materials to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) containing evidence of a hybrid attack by Belarus against Lithuanian civil aviation, the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications reported. \u201cThe Ministry of Transport appealed to the International Civil Aviation Organization and the European Commission back in October, immediately after the intensive hybrid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0b892ef2c5d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuania Submits Additional Materials to ICAO on Weather Balloons Entering From Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[143118,143120],"class_list":["post-543435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-meteozondy"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543435","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=543435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}