A Russian fighter and a refueler crossed the EU’s external border Thursday night as the bloc’s leaders discussed their defense plans.
A Russian fighter jet and a refueling aircraft briefly crossed into Lithuanian airspace from the Kaliningrad region on Thursday evening, the Lithuanian Armed Forces said.
Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda condemned what he described as "a cruel violation of international law and territorial sovereignty of Lithuania.”
“We have to react to this,” he wrote on X, posting from Brussels.
The intrusion came as EU leaders in Brussels were discussing ways to strengthen the bloc’s security at Thursday’s European Council. For Lithuania, which has seen a growing number of airspace violations in recent months — from fighter jets and drones to balloons — air defense remains a top priority.
Do you know whose airspace Russia doesn’t violate anymore?
Let me guess, they shot it down.
… read the article. Yeah, they shot it down.
That is 100% what every country needs to be doing. These aren’t mistakes.
What needs to be done is the 2 year old warrant issued by the ICC should be enforced and Putin should be on trial in the Hague
…except that I’m an idiot who messed up dabbling in geography.
Apologies.
Lithuania borders both Kaliningrad which serves as an important Russian military outpost and Belarus which is very friendly with Russia and is happy to let Russian troops and aircraft through.
Claims Lithuania doesn’t border Russia.
Post map showing Lithuania’s border with Russia
Well, they do if you count Oblast, but there’s a looong way from there to Russia without flying over another country.
Yet that’s exactly what happened. And yes, Kaliningrad Oblast is a part of Russia. Not sure why one would not count that: planes can fly over sea, or start and land right there in Kaliningrad!
Or were you talking about some other oblast?
Yep, there we go. This will continue to escalate. The EU needs to mobilize on a big scale, war is coming.
This is a way to get European countries to give less aid to Ukraine by making them hesitant to depart from military stuff.
There’s no way Russia can take on all of the EU or NATO when they can barely invade Ukraine.
I don’t know man, they’re up to some shit, and they have a plan.
Fuckin Cylons, man.
Frack them toasters. All of this has happened before.
