{"id":499481,"date":"2025-12-01T15:53:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499481"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:32:30","slug":"belarus-accuses-lithuania-of-airspace-violation-by-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-accuses-lithuania-of-airspace-violation-by-drone","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Accuses Lithuania of Airspace Violation by Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Belarusian Foreign Ministry summoned Lithuania\u2019s charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires <b>Erikas Vilkanecas<\/b> on 1 December. He was issued a protest <em>\u201cin connection with the violation of the state border of Belarus by an unmanned aerial vehicle of the aircraft type.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, the drone <em>\u201ccrossed the border on 30 November from Lithuania\u2019s Lazdijai district and fell in Hrodna.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAnalysis of the wreckage, including video and navigation data, showed that the route of the Western European UAV provided for a flight over Belarus, entry into Poland and a return to the launch point in Lithuania. Minsk considers the incident a deliberate provocation,\u201d<\/i> the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus demands that Lithuania provide detailed information about the incident, conduct an investigation and hold those responsible to account, and take measures to prevent similar cases.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBelarus reserves the right to take necessary measures to protect its sovereignty,\u201d<\/i> the Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belarusian Foreign Ministry summoned Lithuania\u2019s charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires Erikas Vilkanecas on 1 December. He was issued a protest \u201cin connection with the violation of the state border of Belarus by an unmanned aerial vehicle of the aircraft type.\u201d According to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, the drone \u201ccrossed the border on 30 November from Lithuania\u2019s Lazdijai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":496101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692d98f7046a3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus Accuses Lithuania of Airspace Violation by Drone"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}