Italian NATO fighter operating from ล iauliai Air Base shot down a suspected Russian drone. ๐ท๐บ ๐ช๐บ
This is now the fourth Baltic state to intercept a drone this year Estonia in May, Latvia twice in June and August, Lithuania now in September which means the geography has been marching steadily north-to-south through NATO's most exposed frontier roughly once a month, regardless of whether each individual drone was aimed or merely lost.
What's actually being tested here isn't Lithuanian airspace, it's whether NATO's response scales with the frequency.