{"id":350241,"date":"2026-06-13T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=350241"},"modified":"2026-06-13T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:00:08","slug":"nato-fighters-scrambled-over-lithuania-as-russia-blitzes-ukrainian-market-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/nato-fighters-scrambled-over-lithuania-as-russia-blitzes-ukrainian-market-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Nato fighters scrambled over Lithuania as Russia blitzes Ukrainian market | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NATO fighters were scrambled over Lithuania today after a kamikaze drone was feared to have entered its airspace.<\/p>\n

People living in Vilnius were ordered to take precautions, because the country borders Russia and its ally Belarus.<\/p>\n

The alert which went off was a \u2018radar signal characteristic of unmanned aerial vehicles\u2019.<\/p>\n

Later it was stated that the incursion could have been a weather balloon, but it surely comes as Russia launched a blitz on a Ukrainian market.<\/p>\n

A dozen cluster bombs were unleashed on the Dnipropetrovsk region with not less than one person killed and 13 wounded within the strike on Vasylkivka.<\/p>\n

A residential constructing was also partially destroyed, and shops and other businesses were damaged.<\/p>\n

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This comes as NATO is preparing to provide its Commander-in-Chief in Europe more power to shoot down drones regardless of national governments.<\/p>\n

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At the least 13 people were injured in consequence of the Russian attack in the marketplace in Vasylivka, Dnipropetrovsk region (Picture: social media\/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The difficulty will probably be raised on the NATO summit in Ankara, on July 7-8.<\/p>\n

This comes as Vladimir Putin\u2019s forces are killing innocent Ukrainian civilians at a better rate than at any time for the past 4 years of war.<\/p>\n

Statistics from the UN show 274 civilians were killed and 1,763 injured in Ukraine in May.<\/p>\n

\u2018The documented harm to the civilian population was not limited to settlements near the front line,\u2019 said the pinnacle of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Danielle Bell.<\/p>\n

\u2018In cities throughout Ukraine, repeated attacks with missiles and aerial bombs resulted within the deaths and injuries of civilians removed from the areas of lively ground combat.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian Kherson was struck by a Russian airstrike, leading to a hearth at two warehouses on the corporate\u2019s premises (Picture: social media; east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s the best number since April 2022.<\/p>\n

Ukraine hit multiple military targets overnight including again striking bridge access to the Crimean Peninsula in an additional blow to Putin.<\/p>\n

Kyiv is searching for to impose a blockade on the occupied territory.<\/p>\n

Drones hit Crimean Titan plant in occupied Armiansk, the region\u2019s largest chemical plant, and a manufacturer of titanium oxide. An influence plant was also struck.<\/p>\n

Individually there have been strikes on the port of Taman as Ukraine consolidated its growing advantage within the war.<\/p>\n

Latest footage showed panic as Ukraine earlier hit the Taneko oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, certainly one of the biggest in Russia, in an 800 mile drone strike.<\/p>\n

The Russians hit Kherson city with airstrikes setting ablaze warehouses. Earlier, they killed one person and 15 were injured in attacks on the region.<\/p>\n

Residential buildings, infrastructure, and equipment were damaged.<\/p>\n

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