{"id":1444978,"date":"2026-09-27T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lithuania-prepares-to-evacuate-residents-of-border-areas-in-case-of-war-with-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:58:03","slug":"lithuania-prepares-to-evacuate-residents-of-border-areas-in-case-of-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/lithuania-prepares-to-evacuate-residents-of-border-areas-in-case-of-war-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania prepares to evacuate residents of border areas in case of war with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lithuanian border municipalities have reported difficulties evacuating their populations in the event of a military threat from Russia. The main problems include a lack of transportation, possible road blockages, and the evacuation of people with special needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/naujienos\/lietuvoje\/2\/3064085\/pasienio-savivaldybes-apie-galima-evakuacija-issukiu-keltu-transportas-ir-uzkimsti-keliai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LRT<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> The municipality of Shalchininkai, which borders Belarus, announced that an evacuation plan has been approved and routes have been agreed with the military commandant&#8217;s office. Due to the possible blockage of the main road, alternative routes will have to be used.<\/p>\n<p> Municipality representative Pavelas Gojus noted that the available transport will not be enough to evacuate all residents in 1 day. According to him, if the evacuation takes 2-3 days, the municipality will be able to carry it out.<\/p>\n<p> In the Varensky district, the main problem was the evacuation of people with special needs, in particular bedridden patients, for whose transportation ambulances are needed.<\/p>\n<p> In the Yurbark district, which borders the Kaliningrad region of Russia, in the event of a mass evacuation, they plan to evacuate about 5-5.7 thousand people. For additional transport and transportation of up to 130 patients, the municipality will contact the central authorities.<\/p>\n<p> Lithuania&#8217;s evacuation readiness is currently being tested during the national exercise &#8220;Vy\u010dio skliautas 2026&#8221;. The practical part involves simulating the evacuation of residents of several districts and municipalities.<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/from-checkpoints-to-nato-airspace-how-russia-is-testing-europe\/\">From checkpoints to NATO airspace: how Russia is testing Europe<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\nAs a reminder, on the night of Tuesday, September 15, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vynyshchuvachi-nato-zbyly-dron-nad-lytvoiu-shcho-vidomo\/\">NATO fighters destroyed a drone that violated Lithuanian airspace<\/a> . The drone entered the country&#8217;s territory from the side of Belarus.<\/p>\n<p> As previously reported, Russia may use its drone flights over Moldova and NATO countries to test their air defenses and respond to border violations. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drony-rf-nad-krainamy-nato-v-isw-poiasnyly-iak-tsym-korystuietsia-kreml\/\">A particular threat is posed by jet drones, which leave Ukraine&#8217;s neighboring countries with significantly less time to react.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border municipalities have reported difficulties evacuating their populations in the event of a military threat from Russia. The main problems include a lack of transportation, possible road blockages, and the evacuation of people with special needs. This is reported by LRT . The municipality of Shalchininkai, which borders Belarus, announced that an evacuation plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":765092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1444978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}