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An unidentified drone suspected to have come from Belarus entered into Lithuanian airspace on Monday, according a local outlet. Darius Buta, a representative of Lithuania's National Crisis Management Center, told public broadcaster LRT that a drone was spotted at an altitude of approximately 650 feet near the capital city of Vilnius.
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Andriy Kovalenko, the head of the National Security and Defense Council's Center for Countering Disinformation, confirmed that a drone from Belarus had flown into Lithuania. He called it Russia's attempt to humiliate NATO in the Baltic states. Overnight, Russian forces launched 324 drones of various types and seven missiles at Ukraine.
"The Lithuanian Air Force observed the object while it was on the territory of Belarus, the information was transferred to the NATO Joint Air Operations Center. So far, the most likely version is that the plane was disoriented by Ukrainian air defense, but all possible versions will be investigated.
Lithuania has summoned a Belarusian diplomat over a drone that crashed over the Baltic country, a member of both NATO and the European Union. In a diplomatic note, Lithuania expressed its "strong protest over the unlawful entry" of the unmanned aerial vehicle into Lithuanian airspace.
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