FILE - Lithuanian soldiers patrol a road near the Lithuania-Belarus border near the village of Jaskonys, Druskininkai district some 160 km (100 miles) south of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, on Nov. 13, 2021. Lithuania decided Wednesday Feb. 21, 2024 to shut down two more of its six checkpoints with Belarus as of next month, amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia, bringing the total of closed border crossings into the Baltic country to four. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)
FILE - Lithuania's Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite speaks to reporters following talks in Warsaw, Poland, on Aug. 28, 2023. Lithuania decided Wednesday Feb. 21, 2024 to shut down two more of its six checkpoints with Belarus as of next month, amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia, bringing the total of closed border crossings into the Baltic country to four. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
FILE - Members of the Lithuania State Border Guard Service on the border with Belarus during a visit by participants of the Conference on Border Management near the village Kurmelionys, some 40km (24 miles) east of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, on Jan. 21, 2022. Lithuania decided Wednesday Feb. 21, 2024 to shut down two more of its six checkpoints with Belarus as of next month, amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia, bringing the total of closed border crossings into the Baltic country to four. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)