{"id":499779,"date":"2025-12-02T21:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499779"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:47:30","slug":"lithuanian-defense-minister-calls-belarus-drone-claims-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-defense-minister-calls-belarus-drone-claims-fake","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Defense Minister Calls Belarus\u2019 Drone Claims Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian Defense Minister <b>Robertas Kaunas<\/b> said that statements by the Belarusian authorities about an alleged drone that entered Belarusian territory from Lithuania do not correspond to reality.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe are not reacting to this specifically, we are not paying special attention to it, because this is fake news. Interpretations from a country unfriendly to us vary, so there is probably no point in responding to them,\u201d<\/i> he told journalists, as reported by Delfi.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s Foreign Ministry previously claimed that on 30 November a drone flew from Lithuania into Belarus and crashed in Hrodna, calling the incident a \u201cdeliberate provocation\u201d. The Interior Ministry said the drone was equipped with a photo and video camera \u201ccapable of collecting reconnaissance data\u201d and had dropped \u201cextremist\u201d materials \u2014 white-red-white flags. Lithuanian drone manufacturer Granta Autonomy acknowledged that the drone shown on Belarusian state TV resembled its older Hornet XR model, but noted that it had been modified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas said that statements by the Belarusian authorities about an alleged drone that entered Belarusian territory from Lithuania do not correspond to reality. \u201cWe are not reacting to this specifically, we are not paying special attention to it, because this is fake news. Interpretations from a country unfriendly to us vary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692f34485a7ff.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Defense Minister Calls Belarus\u2019 Drone Claims Fake"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499779","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=499779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}