{"id":527908,"date":"2026-03-24T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=527908"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:55:32","slug":"lithuanian-presidential-adviser-says-fallen-drone-could-be-a-shahed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-presidential-adviser-says-fallen-drone-could-be-a-shahed","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Presidential Adviser Says Fallen Drone Could Be A \u201cShahed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Chief national security adviser to the Lithuanian president <b>Deividas Matulionis<\/b> said on \u017dini\u0173 radijas that the drone that fell near the Belarusian border could have been a \u201cShahed\u201d-type UAV. At the same time, he stressed that it is too early to draw final conclusions.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cMost likely, a \u2018Shahed\u2019, possibly of another type,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBoth Russians and Ukrainians use drones of various types, so we cannot say with certainty where this drone came from, where it was flying from, or where it was heading,\u201d<\/i> Matulionis added.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it remains to be determined whether the drone entered Lithuania accidentally after losing its course or whether it was a provocation.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI would not venture to claim that this is a provocation on the part of Belarus, but of course we can never completely rule it out,\u201d<\/i> the presidential adviser said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Belarusian side had not warned Lithuania about the movement of the drone. Lithuania intends to inform its NATO allies about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Matulionis confirmed that military radars did not detect the object, likely because it was flying at a low altitude.<\/p>\n<p>The drone fell on Monday morning in the Var\u0117na District near Lake Lavysas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief national security adviser to the Lithuanian president Deividas Matulionis said on \u017dini\u0173 radijas that the drone that fell near the Belarusian border could have been a \u201cShahed\u201d-type UAV. At the same time, he stressed that it is too early to draw final conclusions. \u201cMost likely, a \u2018Shahed\u2019, possibly of another type,\u201d he said. \u201cBoth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":527818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c2518ba9557.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Presidential Adviser Says Fallen Drone Could Be A \u201cShahed\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527908","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=527908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}