Lithuania lifts air alert after suspected drones approaching from Belarus diverted - Europe live

Incident comes just a day after Nato had to shoot down a suspected stray Ukrainian drone over Estonia

AFP notes that it was the first alarm in an EU and Nato member country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022 to trigger a hunker-down alert for the population – including the president, prime minister and MPs.

Political leaders were ushered into bunkers following a drone alert last year, but not the general population.