Lithuania's Vilnius airport resumed operations on Thursday evening, after closing for more than an hour due to smugglers' balloons again appearing on radar, Lithuania's National Crisis Management Centre said.

Last month, the Baltic republic closed its border crossings with Belarus in response to airspace disruptions by weather balloons coming in from Belarus, but reopened them earlier on Thursday. "As the Prime Minister has said, if hybrid attacks of this nature continue, all border checkpoints may be closed again," a spokesperson for Lithuanian premier Inga Ruginiene said in a statement.

Lithuania has said the balloons, which have caused closures at Lithuanian airports, are flown by smugglers transporting contraband cigarettes and blames Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko for not

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