Adopted text
Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against Lithuania
TA-10-2025-0345 · P10_TA(2025)0345 · PE779.052
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Parliament condemns Belarus's hybrid attacks against Lithuania, including UAV and balloon incursions, instrumentalised migration, economic coercion, and disinformation, and demands they cease immediately.¶¶ It supports Lithuania's right to take proportionate measures, calls for stronger EU-NATO and EU-Ukraine cooperation, and urges new sanctions and accountability for Belarus.¶¶¶
Key points
- Condemns Belarus's hybrid attacks against Lithuania and the EU, including UAV and balloon incursions, instrumentalised migration, economic coercion, and disinformation.¶
- Condemns retaliatory measures against Lithuania, including illegal detention of European freight operators.¶
- Demands Belarus cease all hybrid attacks, release European hauliers, compensate them, and surrender those responsible for serious crimes.¶
- Supports Lithuania's right to intercept or neutralise unmanned flying objects from Belarus.¶
- Deplores the lack of coordination in the US partial lifting of sanctions on Belarus.¶
- Reiterates non-recognition of Lukashenka as legitimate President and conditions sanctions review on systemic change and release of political prisoners.¶
- Calls for deeper EU-NATO intelligence cooperation, including unified incident-classification protocols and joint exercises.¶
- Calls on member states and NATO allies to reassess frameworks for hybrid threats, moving to proactive deterrence.¶
- Calls for protection of critical infrastructure to be embedded and financed in the next MFF.¶
- Calls on the Commission and Frontex to support Lithuania's border and airspace surveillance, and welcomes the European Drone Defence Initiative and Eastern Flank Watch.¶
- Calls for deeper EU-Ukraine cooperation on drone technologies and hybrid-threat resilience.¶
- Calls for additional targeted sanctions against Belarusian officials and entities, and sectoral measures including aviation and financial restrictions.¶