The Lithuanian authorities present reported the release of a red alert for 2 northern regions of the country due to an unidentified facility in airspace. A yellow alert for 3 regions was issued in Latvia. The alarms have already been canceled.
According to the Lithuanian National Centre for Crisis Management in the face of the threat of the second largest airport in the country, Dude, it was temporarily closed. The affected regions were targeted by NATO fighters.
A fewer minutes before 8.00 p.m. (at 7.00 p.m. in Poland), the Lithuanian armed forces reported on platform X the cancellation of the alert for all previously threatened regions.
In turn about 8.20 (7.20 in Poland) The armed forces of Latvia have reported that there is no longer a threat to 1 of the 2 regions covered by the alert that border Lithuania. "The thinkers proceed to search for a possible target, looking for a place without clouds for visual identification," says the army's Facebook entry.
In both countries, alerts continued for about 30 minutes.
APW, PAP
