Lithuania Leaders Evacuated After Drone Crosses from Belarus

Gintautas Paluckas

Photographer: Petras Malukas/AFP/Getty Images

Lithuanian leaders were taken to a shelter after an alert about a combat drone entering the Baltic nation’s airspace from neighboring Belarus.

Initially believing the flying object could represent a danger, possibly a Shahed drone of the type Russia deploys against Ukraine, authorities evacuated Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and Parliamentary Speaker Saulius Skvernelis to a safe location, local news service BNS reported.