16 July 2026

A bomb-like object was found during excavation work at Vilnius airport today, triggering plan Skydas. DHL evacuated all staff from its nearby site, and emergency teams are assessing whether the object is dangerous and when normal operations can resume.

Lithuania’s prosecutor general today opened a pre-trial investigation into a Facebook post published on the account Celofano mobingas. Prosecutors said the Lithuanian- and Russian-language post was paired with a video about Russian target lists for strikes on the Baltic states and included the names of 66 well-known Lithuanian citizens. The case was opened under Criminal Code articles 122 and 118 and assigned to the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau.

Lithuania’s electoral commission is also moving on Marijampolė mayor Povilas Isoda’s mandate after the Court of Appeal convicted him in the receipts scandal. Prosecutors said the case involved 2,479 euros of municipal funds, 26 expense summaries and 11 reports with false data, while Isoda said he disagreed with the ruling but would step down. President Gitanas Nauseda has not yet decided whether to sign or return the law scrapping the PUPP threshold for 10th graders, although adviser Aida Murauskaite backed a compromise to delay it until 2029.

In business, Invest Lithuania has started counting large domestic-capital projects in this year’s figures and is putting more emphasis on bigger industrial investments. The list includes a 35 million euro poultry-processing project, a 200 million euro wood-panel plant and a 47.3 million euro Light Conversion investment in a laser manufacturing and research centre. In culture, the Vilnius-based Lithuanian symphonic wind orchestra won the international wind band contest in Valencia, one of Spain’s best-known competitions of its kind.

Zalgiris beat Petrovac again to reach the second qualifying round of the UEFA Conference League. In Vilnius, the garbage crisis deepened, with city authorities warning it could escalate into an emergency.