Overview

• Lithuania’s Seimas fast‑tracked amendments empowering the defence minister or a designated official to authorize shooting down drones that threaten national airspace, extending action from prohibited zones to restricted areas and adding rapid activation of temporary airspace restrictions.
• New Lithuanian rules include procedures to notify aircraft within 10 minutes of activating restricted zones and require transponder use and radio contact by pilots in uncontrolled airspace.
• Turkey declined to comment on a Bloomberg report that it temporarily sent an AWACS‑type aircraft to Lithuania for drone detection under NATO activity.
• Russia’s Defence Ministry reported that air defences intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian drones overnight across Rostov and Krasnodar regions, Crimea, and over the Black and Azov seas, after earlier stating 11 were downed over Crimea and the Black Sea in the evening.
• Regional alerts and battlefield claims accompanied the reports, including a ‘drone danger’ warning in Krasnodar Krai and statements by Russian authorities about strikes on Ukrainian drone infrastructure and logistics such as at the Goncharovsky training ground, which were not independently verified.