Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says Russian military planes violated Lithuania’s airspace on Thursday evening.

Russian military planes briefly violated Lithuania’s airspace Thursday evening, the Lithuanian president said, condemning what he called a blatant breach of the territorial integrity of his European Union and NATO-member country.

Lithuania’s foreign ministry planned to summon Russian Embassy representatives in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius to protest the violation, President Gitanas Nausėda said in a post on the social media platform X.

“This is a blatant breach of international law and territorial integrity of Lithuania,” Nausėda wrote on X. “Once again, it confirms the importance of strengthening European air defence readiness.”

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      9 days ago

      Let me guess, they shot it down.

      … read the article. Yeah, they shot it down.

      That is 100% what every country needs to be doing. These aren’t mistakes.

      • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 days ago

        What needs to be done is the 2 year old warrant issued by the ICC should be enforced and Putin should be on trial in the Hague

      • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.deEnglish
        12·
        9 days ago

        Lithuania borders both Kaliningrad which serves as an important Russian military outpost and Belarus which is very friendly with Russia and is happy to let Russian troops and aircraft through.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        8·
        9 days ago

        Well, they do if you count Oblast, but there’s a looong way from there to Russia without flying over another country.

        Yet that’s exactly what happened. And yes, Kaliningrad Oblast is a part of Russia. Not sure why one would not count that: planes can fly over sea, or start and land right there in Kaliningrad!

        Or were you talking about some other oblast?

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    Yep, there we go. This will continue to escalate. The EU needs to mobilize on a big scale, war is coming.