NATO Says Baltic Nations Didn’t Open Airspace to Ukrainian Drones

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte rebuffed the claims the same day the airport in Lithuania’s capital city of Vilnius suspended flights due to a drone warning.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Ankara, Turkey, on April 22, 2026. Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images

Moscow’s allegation that Baltic countries are opening their airspace for Ukrainian drones to attack Russia was branded “ridiculous” by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on May 20.

He said that Russia knew that the claims were false, as he was taking questions from reporters in Brussels.