Lithuania has announced the indefinite closure of its border with Belarus following a series of incidents involving weather probes, which have caused several suspensions at Vilnius airport.
According to Maxim Pleshko, candidate of philosophical sciences and head of the Ukrainian Center for Belarusian Communications, the incidents are likely a "purposeful operation of hybrid pressure".
What is happening is hardly accidental. It is a purposeful operation of hybrid pressure.
The "weather probes" could be cheap unmanned platforms equipped with containers for smuggling, sensors, and GPS modules, launched to test air defense systems, aviation reactions, and practice radar avoidance routes.
This tactic is a classic "probing" - provocation without direct responsibility, suggesting a new form of hybrid attack.
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