{"id":519450,"date":"2026-02-20T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=519450"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:46:25","slug":"drone-carrying-cigarettes-flies-from-belarus-to-lithuania-three-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/drone-carrying-cigarettes-flies-from-belarus-to-lithuania-three-detained","title":{"rendered":"Drone Carrying Cigarettes Flies From Belarus to Lithuania, Three Detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On the night of February 18, Lithuanian border guards spotted a drone flying from the direction of Belarus near the village of Sabali\u016bnai in the \u0160al\u010dininkai District. The unmanned aerial vehicle was forced to land and crashed several hundred meters from the border, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service reported.<\/p>\n<p>A package containing 1,000 packs of Belarusian NZ Gold cigarettes was attached to the drone. Nearby, border guards found a dent in the snow from another package and footprints. A service dog followed the trail and led officers to a private house.<\/p>\n<p>After a search of the house, three men aged 35, 36 and 42 were detained. A package containing 1,000 packs of cigarettes was found in a sewage truck parked in the yard.<\/p>\n<p>All three men were placed under arrest for one month. They had previously been detained on charges related to smuggling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_519418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519418\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-519418\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-2-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-2-1200x1000.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-2-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-2-480x400.jpg 480w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-2-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-519418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: vsat.lrv.lt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_519419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519419\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-519419\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-5.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-5-300x269.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-5-1141x1024.jpeg 1141w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-5-768x689.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-5-446x400.jpeg 446w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219-cig-salcin-5-891x800.jpeg 891w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-519419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: vsat.lrv.lt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of February 18, Lithuanian border guards spotted a drone flying from the direction of Belarus near the village of Sabali\u016bnai in the \u0160al\u010dininkai District. The unmanned aerial vehicle was forced to land and crashed several hundred meters from the border, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service reported. A package containing 1,000 packs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":519449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699865b5d7cf6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Drone Carrying Cigarettes Flies From Belarus to Lithuania, Three Detained"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519450","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=519450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}