Lithuania Sees Hybrid Attacks Hurting US-Belarus Rapprochement

Lithuania’s top envoy warned that a surge in cases of weather balloons ferrying smuggled goods from neighboring Belarus would harm Minsk’s ambitions to seek an accord with the US.

Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said that the incursions, which have repeatedly halted air traffic at Vilnius Airport over the past two months, amount to a hybrid attack against a member of NATO and the European Union. He said the incidents would affect Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s attempts to mend ties with the US.