22 April 2026

Police found the body of 31-year-old paramedic Mantas Sadauskas on Tuesday evening at a homestead in Mileškūnai village, Panevėžys district, and opened murder and unlawful confinement investigations. Officers said the body had been concealed, buried and wrapped in a trampoline, while the case now centres on three detainees, including Sadauskas’s former wife Justina Gaigalaitė, who Lithuanian media identify as the main suspect. Investigators are also examining a third possible offence and are rebuilding Sadauskas’s final movements hour by hour.

Earlier that day, investigators found his car in a secluded area near the villages of Paliukai and Gegužinė, a few kilometres from the homestead. Relatives said Sadauskas had left to deliver a trampoline for a kindergarten event in Paįstrys eldership, and public attention has shifted to possible links with a bodybuilding business. Police have asked drivers to hand over dashcam footage from Paliukai village around 10 a.m. yesterday to help reconstruct his final hours.

Parliament’s budget and finance committee today opened scrutiny of the second-pillar pension overhaul and decided to seek an academic legal and economic opinion. Lawmakers want to test whether the draft fits a Constitutional Court ruling and what it would mean for the public interest and the financial system.

On energy, Arvydas Račkus warned that fuel prices in Lithuania have already risen about 30%, while gas in mid-April was still roughly 40% more expensive than a year earlier. He said households could start feeling the hit in bills from July because Lithuania still relies on gas to balance its power system.

Late attention focused on the Mantas Sadauskas murder case: ELTA reported that three suspects have been detained, while new details emerged about the alleged planning of the crime and the concealment of clues. Among the more significant late developments, the State Audit Office said state reserves may not reach residents in time in the event of a crisis or war.

Zaporizhzhia region was hit by a Russian strike today that killed at least one person and damaged road and rail infrastructure. Emergency crews are checking routes used for civilian travel and freight, and some sections are likely to remain restricted during repairs and ordnance sweeps. In another Russian drone strike in Ukraine over the past day, at least three people were killed.

In Brussels, EU governments gave preliminary approval to unlock 90 billion euros in loans for Ukraine, with Hungary given 24 hours to make a final decision. The money is tied to Kyiv’s budget needs over the next two years and had been held up by Budapest’s veto over the use of frozen Russian assets. If Hungary does not block the plan, the EU could also finalize a 20th sanctions package on Russia. EU officials are also weighing how to handle a possible post-election transition in Hungary if Peter Magyar defeats Viktor Orban.

The EU will by June propose entry restrictions for Russian troops who fought in Ukraine, and Kaja Kallas said Estonia has already barred about 250 such people. Over the Baltic Sea, NATO jets were scrambled today to identify Russian military aircraft, while Polish aircraft shadowed a Russian plane in international airspace the same day. In Germany, Rheinmetall signed a preliminary 300 million euro Bundeswehr contract to produce FV-014 loitering munitions, with first deliveries due in the first half of 2027.

In sport, Inter overturned a two-goal deficit to reach the Coppa Italia final. Chelsea lost again and have now gone five straight matches without scoring, matching the club’s worst such run since 1912.

Volodymyr Zelensky said talks on the war in Ukraine cannot be put off until the end of the war with Iran. The EU commissioner for enlargement called for accession talks with Ukraine to start faster.

Lebanese officials said on Tuesday that more than 62,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in the war with Israel. The heaviest destruction was in south Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs, where entire blocks were flattened or badly scarred. The damage is now shaping return, compensation and reconstruction plans, with many families still waiting for repairs and payouts.

The UN said on Tuesday that 736 Palestinians have been killed and 2,035 injured in Gaza since the Oct. 10 ceasefire. It said the week of April 2-8 brought the highest casualty toll of the truce so far, while only 43% of Gaza’s pre-war health service points were at least partly operational. Aid flows also remained patchy in early April.

Donald Trump on Monday extended the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely, while the United States kept its naval blockade of Iranian ports and held off a planned strike. Talks on a broader settlement remain stalled over control of the Strait of Hormuz and shipping terms, and tanker traffic through the waterway has already fallen sharply. Trump also said Iran would face financial collapse if the Strait of Hormuz remained closed. China said on Tuesday that the Middle East had reached a critical point, while Pakistan and Oman were still trying to broker a new round of talks.

SpaceX said on Tuesday it will partner with coding startup Cursor and left open a possible $60 billion acquisition later this year. If talks become a takeover, one of the fastest-growing AI coding tools could be folded into SpaceX before year-end.

Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz escalated further as Iran attacked ships there, detaining two and firing on another. At the same time, the White House said Donald Trump had not set a strict deadline for a ceasefire with Iran, even as he said he expected a response within the next few days.