Balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes over Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport for hours

The balloons interfered with 30 flights, impacting some 6,000 passengers, according to Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Center. Flights resumed at 4:50 a.m. (0150 GMT) Sunday. While the balloons turned out to be ferrying cigarettes, Europe is on high alert after intrusions into NATO’s airspac...

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