The text, adopted by 438 votes in favour, 37 against with 48 abstentions, points to Belarus’s repeated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and balloon incursions into Lithuanian airspace, as well as cyberattacks, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, economic coercion, and instrumentalised migration. These actions, MEPs say, are deliberate, coordinated, hostile and also part of a broader Russia-led strategy to undermine the EU, its member states and NATO.

The resolution highlights a sharp rise in Belarusian airspace violations since 2024, posing serious risks to civil aviation, public safety and the economy. MEPs see evidence that the unmanned devices were deployed in a controlled way and were, in one case, equipped with explosive material. Following Lithuania’s closure of its border with Belarus, the text condemns Belarus’s retaliatory detention of EU freight operators, as well as its long-standing use of migration as a political weapon.

Solidarity with Lithuania, lack of…