Andrius Sytas

AirBaltic's options are "quite limited" if ​stakeholders do not approve external funding, Fitch Ratings told Reuters on Friday, estimating the Latvian ‌airline needs €156 million ($180.80 million) in funding to keep operating in the short term.

Schools in Estonia's Tartu, where children have already experienced a drone heading towards them from the Russian border, are putting protective film on ​windows in case another comes their way.

Lithuania's central bank said on Tuesday that Hungary's OTP Bank's operations in Russia raise "legitimate questions" about its ​planned acquisition of Luminor Bank, the third-largest lender in the ‌Baltics region.

Latvia has increased security around a hydroelectric dam upstream ‌from its capital Riga and at a huge underground gas storage facility due to intelligence pointing to a threat from Russia, Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs told Reuters on Thursday.

NATO has agreed to upgrade its decades-old Baltic air policing mission into air ​defence, giving pilots a wider mandate, including destroying "objects that pose ‌a threat", Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Wednesday.

Estonia has released images showing ​machine guns and sandbags mounted on a Russian-flagged liquefied natural gas carrier in the Baltic Sea this spring, signalling a ‌more confrontational stance by Moscow in protecting its civilian fleet.

At Birdwhistles Guesthouse, in a rustic two-storey wooden barn in the Latvian forest 50 km from the Russian border, all eight rooms are vacant, which absolutely never happens ​this time of year, says the owner, Martins Kiscenko.

Ukraine has signed a ‌drone deal with Latvia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday as he met with Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs on the sidelines of a summit between Ukraine and Nordic and Baltic states in the Estonian capital Tallinn.

A French military Rafale ​fighter jet shot down a drone that entered NATO member Latvia's airspace from Russia on ‌Monday, the latest in a series of such security incidents along Europe's eastern border regions.

Lithuania's ruling Social Democrat party voted on Saturday to remove the populist Nemunas Dawn, whose leader was sentenced for antisemitism, ​from the coalition government.