The main national airport of Lithuania is being repeatedly shut down by weather balloons carrying packets of contraband cigarettes being floated over from Russia-ally Belarus and they will now be shot down, the nation’s Prime Minister has vowed.

The Lithuanian military will now be authorised to take “all necessary measures” including “kinetic” against the repeated incursions of large weather balloons into the NATO-member’s airspace from neighbouring Belarus. Vilnius Airport was shut down by the balloons four times last week, disrupting the travel of thousands of people.

While the balloons are said to be the work of smugglers moving contraband…

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