Lithuania is prepared to immediately shut its border with Belarus in the event of a provocation, Lithuanian Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovic said on Sept. 12. The minister's statement comes two days after Russia violated Polish airspace with 19 drones overnight on Sept.

The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, part of the Lublin Triangle format, issued a joint statement following the violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones on the night of 9-10.

Lithuanian authorities say powerful explosions have been heard in the suburbs of the capital, Vilnius, after several rail cars loaded with liquefied gas caught fire

Poland has closed the border with Belarus from September 12 because of the exercise "West-2025. Lithuanian Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovic said that if there are provocations, Lithuania will do the same, Delfi reports.

The Zapad-2025 (meaning "west" in Russian) drills, set to begin on Sept. 12 in Belarus and western Russia, have heightened alarm in NATO member states Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

The U.S. Department of Defense informed European countries last week that military support under a program known as Section 333 will be cut to zero from the next fiscal year, a Lithuanian defence ministry official said on Friday.

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Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, issued an evacuation order on Wednesday for residents within a one-kilometre (0.62 mile) radius of a rail station after a train carrying liquefied petrochemical gas (LPG) ignited and exploded during reloading.

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