On the eastern edge of NATO's alliance, Lithuania is no longer treating war as a distant abstraction. Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius has confirmed that his government holds concrete evacuation plans for civilians while simultaneously pledging armed resistance if Russia moves against the country. Sharing a land border with Russia's Kaliningrad enclave and absorbing routine drone incursions into its airspace, Lithuania finds itself at the intersection of geography and geopolitical tension — a small nation holding a very large line.
Lithuania prepares evacuation plans while vowing to 'fight back' against Russian threats
Residents in Vilnius were forced to shelter during drone alerts; potential civilian displacement risk if conflict escalates.