Lithuania has drawn up plans to shut its border crossings with Belarus indefinitely, after the capital's airport was repeatedly disrupted by suspected sightings of balloons carrying contraband cigarettes.

Lithuania's National Security Commission met on Monday after balloon sightings prompted the suspension of air traffic at Vilnius Airport the past three evenings, causing cancellations, diversions and delays.

On Friday the Kaunas airport, which is further from the Belarusian border, was also affected. The incidents followed similar disruption early Wednesday and on other recent occasions .

Lithuania's two border crossings with Belarus, at Medininkai and Šalčininkai, were both closed for several hours as a result of the balloon incidents.

The country's border guard service decided ove

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