Overview

• Lithuania’s Seimas passed expedited amendments empowering the defence minister or a designee to order drone shootdowns and to activate restricted airspace zones on short notice.
• The law extends interception authority from banned areas to restricted zones, requires pilots to use radio and transponders in uncontrolled airspace, and limits civilian flights in activated zones without special permission.
• Bloomberg reported Turkey temporarily sent an AWACS-type aircraft to Lithuania to detect low-flying drones, while Ankara declined to comment on the deployment.
• Ukraine recorded air‑raid alerts across eight regions, with Ukrainian TV reporting explosions in Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv during the alerts.
• The IAEA’s Rafael Grossi said Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant safety remains a daily concern after a tenth loss of external power, as Russian and pro‑Russian sources issued unverified claims of strikes and battlefield losses.