“The government is preparing to declare an emergency situation due to the threat to civil protection,” Ignas Algirdas Dobrovolskas told BNS.
Under Lithuania’s crisis management law, the government may declare a state-level emergency when an incident meets established criteria in at least two municipalities, or when a municipal emergency lasts more than a year or requires resources from other municipalities. Such a regime can be applied nationwide or in specific regions.
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Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovič said Wednesday that an emergency declaration was among the measures under consideration and that he planned to raise the issue with the National Crisis Management Centre.
The last two paragraphs: "According to the Interior Ministry, 599 smugglers’ balloons and 197 drones have crossed into Lithuanian airspace this year, disrupting 320 flights, affecting 47,000 passengers and causing nearly 60 hours of airport closures.
Weather balloons launched by cigarette smugglers in Belarus have disrupted operations at Vilnius Airport more than a dozen times in recent months and once at Kaunas Airport."