Lithuania's foreign ministry has written to the NATO military alliance asking it to help strengthen its air defences, it said on Tuesday, after two military drones crossed into its territory from Belarus last month.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys said he had spoken with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte about "the recent drone incidents".View on euronews

NATO takes the violations of Lithuanian airspace by Russian drones "very seriously", NATO spokesperson Allison Hart wrote on X. According to her, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte spoke today with Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys regarding the recent violations of Lithuanian airspace by Russian military drones.