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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Lithuanian leaders rushed to bunkers as drone violates country’s airspace

People sat on benches inside a shelter
People crowded into a shelter at the Lithuanian parliament after the mobile phone alert. Photograph: Andrius Sytas/Reuters

Lithuania’s president and prime minister were rushed to underground bunkers and residents of the capital, Vilnius, urged to take shelter during a warning issued after a drone violated the country’s airspace.

Air and train traffic in and around the city was suspended after the mobile phone “take shelter” alert, the first issued in an EU and Nato country since the start of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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