“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."
You’d think that large drones would be a lot more useful for smuggling via air than balloons.
I assume that the balloons can broadcast their position so that their cargo can be picked up wherever they land, but they aren’t controllable. Drones are.
I’m not in the smuggling business at all, but I guess a drone capable of carrying the same payload as a balloon is a lot more expensive.
Also you want the drone back, which increases the risk of being discovered. Balloons are fire and forget, and you don’t need to stick around.
Feel like a combo would be slickest, drone dirigible type deal
I’ll link this video I watched a while ago Moscow’s Belarus Land Bridge Is Gone–Millions Panic as Lithuania Shuts Down All Border Crossings (published 3 weeks ago) which goes into the issue and response of closing borders and Belarus being blocked on their main transport route to the sea. Lemmy post
I find the thumbnails so cringe. “Putin is done”, yeah Im very sure I already read the same headline 2 weeks after the war started, and the arguments also made some sense at the time, but here we are. It’s just click bait, nobody knows what happens next but “shits gonna happen very soon, believe me!” Videos are published day by day just for that sweet ad revenue.
