Overview

• Lithuania’s Seimas passed expedited amendments empowering the defense minister or a designee to order the neutralization of drones that threaten the country’s airspace beyond previously limited prohibited zones.
• The law limits the use of force to cases of absolute necessity with precautions, enables rapid activation of restricted airspace zones with at least 10 minutes’ notice, and requires pilots in uncontrolled airspace to use radios and transponders.
• Bloomberg reported that Turkey temporarily sent an AWACS-capable aircraft to Lithuania to help detect low‑flying drones, while the Turkish presidency declined to comment on the report.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian drones overnight over Rostov and Krasnodar regions, Crimea, and the Black and Azov seas; the Rostov governor reported no casualties or damage after local interceptions.
• Ukrainian authorities signaled air‑raid alerts across eight regions with blasts reported in Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv, and pro‑Russian officials in Luhansk said 15 drones were downed with damage to civilian infrastructure and no fatalities.