Vilnius Čiurlionis International Airport in Southeastern Lithuania has now issued a Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) closing the airport until at least 2:30am, while confirming that tonight’s delays and diversions were due to a “series of balloons” approaching the airspace over the airport from the direction of the border with Belarus.

Belarus and Russia appear to be escalating their “hybrid campaign” against countries in Europe, now launching balloons over the border into Lithuanian Airspace, similar to the near-conflict we saw recently between North and South Korea.

U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, who was nominated by President Donald J. Trump in 2018, has issued a restraining order temporarily blocking the Trump Administration’s federalization and deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, until at least October 18, 2025.

Flights are beginning to divert away from the airspace over Eastern Poland, near the border with both Belarus and Ukraine.

Russian one-way attack drones are currently flying over Western Ukraine in the direction of the border with Poland.

Commercial flights are now totally avoiding the airspace over Eastern Poland.

There are almost no military flights visible tonight over Europe, despite a large-scale drone and missile attack ongoing against Ukraine and balloons launched into Lithuania from Belarus. It appears in the last 24 hours or so, both NATO and the U.S. have halted the use of visible transponders for most, if not all, military aircraft, including fighters, tankers, surveillance, and command & control aircraft within European Airspace.

An Australian E-7A “Wedgetail” Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) Aircraft has just appeared over Poland heading in the direction of the border with Ukraine, alongside an F-35A Lightning ll, likely either Dutch or Norwegian, that appeared briefly but has since “gone dark” flying east over Western Poland.

The Wedgetail has also now turned off its transponder over Eastern Poland.

The Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces states that Polish and allied aircraft have been scrambled due to the activity of Russian long-range aviation and one-way attack drones in the airspace over Ukraine, adding that fighter jets are intensively operating in Polish Airspace, while ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems have reached their highest state of readiness across Poland.

Roughly a dozen Russian one-way attack drones are currently flying over the Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine near the border with Poland.

Thick black smoke can be seen rising across the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, roughly 30 miles from the border with Poland, following multiple ballistic and cruise missile strikes, as well as impacts from one-way attack drones, during tonight’s large-scale attack by Russia against Ukraine.

A map showing the route taken by air and surface-launched ballistic/cruise missiles and one-way attack drones during last night’s large-scale attack by Russia against Ukraine, with this likely being the largest or one of the largest attacks of the war against the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv and the Lviv Oblast.

According to U.S. officials who spoke with Axios, when Hamas came back with a “yes, but” to President Donald J. Trump’s 20-point comprehensive peace proposal in Gaza on Friday, Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss what he saw as good news. However, Netanyahu appears to have felt differently, reportedly telling Trump: “This is nothing to celebrate, and that it doesn't mean anything.” Leading Trump to fire back: “I don't know why you're always so fucking negative. This is a win. Take it.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated that it is believed Russia is behind a recent spree of drone sightings over airports and military sites in Germany and across Europe, which disrupted dozens of flights and stranded more than 10,000 passengers this weekend at Munich Airport. Merz added that the frequency of the incursions into European Airspace was unprecedented, even compared to the Cold War, but that none of the drones spotted so far have been armed, instead appearing to be on reconnaissance flights against NATO.

Denmark has assigned a pair of F-35A Lightning lls to defend the airspace over Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, as well as the Baltic Sea, as part of NATO Operation Eastern Sentry. Additionally, the Iver Huitfeldt-Class Air-Defense Frigate, HDMS Niels Juel (F363), will be immediately deployed to the East Baltic.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump appears to state that the military carried out another strike, the fifth one since August, last night against a suspected narco-terrorist vessel in the Southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela, while speaking to Sailors earlier at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.

For the second time in two weeks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tonight have carried out a series of precision-missile strikes against the Luch Thermal Power Station and other energy infrastructure throughout the Western Russian city of Belgorod, resulting in a near total service blackout across the Belgorod Oblast.