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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) \u2014 Residents of Vilnius were told to take shelter and Lithuania\u2019s president and prime minister were taken to safe locations on Wednesday because of an alarm over drone activity near the border with Belarus, underlining jitters on NATO\u2019s eastern fringe over incursions related to Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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An emergency announcement from the military told people in the Vilnius region to \u201cimmediately head to a shelter or a safe place.\u201d <\/p>\n

The alert, which lasted for about an hour, also led to the closure of the airspace over Vilnius Airport. President Gitanas Nauseda and Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene were taken to shelters, and there was also an evacuation order at Lithuania\u2019s parliament, the Seimas, the BNS news agency reported.<\/p>\n

It was the first major alert that sent residents and political leaders in a European Union and NATO capital rushing to shelters since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. <\/p>\n

Lithuania, a member of NATO and the European Union, borders Russia-allied Belarus to the east and Russia\u2019s Kaliningrad exclave to the west. Wednesday\u2019s alert came after the military said it detected drone activity in Belarus, but no drones were sighted over Lithuania.<\/p>\n

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In recent months, Ukrainian drones aimed at Russia have crossed or come down in NATO territory on numerous occasions. Western officials have blamed what they say is likely Russian electronic jamming of the drones. Russia, meanwhile, has renewed threats that it would retaliate if Ukrainian drones are launched from Baltic countries or if those countries are complicit in their use against Russia.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening, Lithuanian Foreign Minister K\u0119stutis Budrys wrote on social media that \u201cRussia is deliberately redirecting Ukrainian drones into Baltic airspace while waging smear campaigns\u201d against Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. \u201cIt\u2019s a transparent act of desperation \u2014 an attempt to sow chaos and distract from a simple reality: (Ukraine) is hitting Russian military machine hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Budrys\u2019 comment came hours after a NATO jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia. Ukraine apologized for that \u201cunintended incident,\u201d without specifying what had happened.<\/p>\n

Last week, Latvia\u2019s government collapsed following an argument over the handling of multiple incidents involving stray drones suspected to be from Ukraine. The defense minister was forced to quit after his party withdrew its support for him, and the prime minister then resigned. The governing coalition had been under strain for months over several other issues.<\/p>\n

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