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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/lithuania-children-drone-training-russia-threat

Lithuania to give children drone training to counter Russia threat

Government aims to teach 22,000 people, including children as young as eight, how to build and operate drones

Lisa O’Carroll
Wed 13 Aug 2025 07.31 EDT

Children in Lithuania are to be taught how to build and operate drones as part of the small Baltic country’s efforts to build capacity to deal with any future threat from Russia.

In a joint initiative by the defence and education ministries, the government said on Tuesday it hoped to teach more than 22,000 people, including schoolchildren, drone skills as part of an attempt to “expand civil resistance training”.

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Like its neighbours Estonia and Latvia, Lithuania, a country of 2.8 million people that borders the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Moscow’s ally Belarus, has been on high alert for war ever since Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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