Lithuania to train citizens to build and pilot drones

Aug. 18, 2025

Q: Bordering Russia and its ally Belarus, NATO member Lithuania plans to teach thousands of its people, including schoolchildren, to build and pilot drones in a move to “expand civil resistance training.” Where is Lithuania, the southernmost of the three small Baltic States?

Circle the area on this map

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Q: Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are on the Baltic Sea and were once ruled by the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Lithuania borders Russia to the ...

A. North

B. East and south

C. South

D. South and west

Q: The drone training program comes after the unmanned aircraft became widely used in the Russian-Ukraine war. How have the Baltic States responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

A. Doubled military spending

B. Cut off Russian power grid

C. Began building defenses

D. All of the above

Q: NATO nations bordering Russia and Belarus worry that Russian President Vladimir Putin may target them when the conflict in Ukraine ends. When did Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia declare independence from the Soviet Union?

A. 1985

B. 1990

C. 1995

D. 2000

Q: Putin called the collapse of the Soviet empire “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” The collapse came at the end of which war?

A. Cold War

B. Crimean War

C. Hungarian Revolution

D. Winter War

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