{"id":527940,"date":"2026-03-24T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=527940"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:01:52","slug":"drone-that-crashed-in-lithuania-was-ukrainian-ruginiene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/drone-that-crashed-in-lithuania-was-ukrainian-ruginiene","title":{"rendered":"Drone That Crashed In Lithuania Was Ukrainian \u2014 Ruginien\u0117"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian Prime Minister <b>Inga Ruginien\u0117<\/b> stated that the drone that crashed yesterday on the country\u2019s territory near the border with Belarus was Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe drone that crossed our airspace and entered the Var\u0117na District was a Ukrainian drone, and it is linked to an operation that Ukrainians were carrying out that night against Russia. We can already say with confidence that this was a drone that went off course,\u201d<\/i> she said after today\u2019s meeting of the National Security Commission, as reported by LRT.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian Defense Minister <b>Robertas Kaunas<\/b> also said that the drone was highly likely to have been Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cPreliminary information from the services is that this was one of the drones from a swarm that attacked the Primorsk port. (\u2026) It is very likely that this was a Ukrainian drone that lost its course under the influence of electronic warfare measures and crashed on our territory,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, neither Belarus nor Lithuania detected the drone.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI would like to note that neither Belarus saw it, nor Lithuania, unfortunately, detected it, as the drone was flying lower than, apparently, 300 meters. The services are still clarifying this point,\u201d<\/i> he added.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that from Sunday to Monday, the oil terminal port of Primorsk in Russia\u2019s Leningrad Region was attacked. The authorities of the Russian region stated that 70 drones had been shot down. Explosions were reported at the port, followed by a major fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginien\u0117 stated that the drone that crashed yesterday on the country\u2019s territory near the border with Belarus was Ukrainian. \u201cThe drone that crossed our airspace and entered the Var\u0117na District was a Ukrainian drone, and it is linked to an operation that Ukrainians were carrying out that night against Russia. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":493561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c261152053d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Drone That Crashed In Lithuania Was Ukrainian \u2014 Ruginien\u0117"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527940","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=527940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}