Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland will take part in regional exercises aimed at testing agreed algorithms during the closure of the border with Belarus. This was stated by Lithuanian Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite, Interfax reports.
The meeting discussed the “general context of possible situations”.
“Today we have confirmed that the format that we had in Warsaw and our joint actions are a very serious signal, first of all, for Belarus,” the minister said after a meeting in Vilnius with representatives of the Interior Ministries of Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Finland, Poland, and Norway. .
In late August, the interior ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland agreed that the borders with Belarus could be closed in the event of an armed incident or a breakthrough by illegal migrants. Operational information exchange and decision-making will be carried out at different levels, from the services to the intergovernmental level. The parties also agreed to introduce similar criteria for responding to threats at the border. The Minister also emphasized that the exercise will be aimed at testing the effectiveness of the algorithm in the regional context.
Earlier it was reported that on January 1, 2026, the Latvian government plans to stop broadcasting public media in Russian.
