{"id":531235,"date":"2026-04-04T11:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=531235"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:00:47","slug":"belarusian-citizen-with-drone-detained-near-vilnius-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-citizen-with-drone-detained-near-vilnius-airport","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Citizen With Drone Detained Near Vilnius Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lithuania’s Public Security Service identified five violators over the past week for flying drones in restricted areas. Three of them were detained near Vilnius Airport.<\/p>\n

On March 28 at around 12:20 p.m., a Belarusian citizen born in 1992 was detained in the same area.<\/p>\n

On April 1 at around 3:30 p.m., a German citizen born in 1988 was also detained for flying a drone near the airport.<\/p>\n

On April 2 at around 4:20 p.m., the Fly Safe drone detection system recorded a drone flight in a restricted zone near the airport. Less than 10 minutes later, officers detained a Lithuanian citizen born in 1998.<\/p>\n

All three were held administratively liable under Article 393, Part 4 of Lithuania’s Code of Administrative Offences and fined 200 euros each.<\/p>\n

The Service reminded<\/a> that drone flights are prohibited in airport and airfield traffic zones, over strategically important facilities and in other restricted areas without the relevant permits. Violations may result in a fine and, in some cases, confiscation of the drone.<\/p>\n

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Lithuania’s Public Security Service identified five violators over the past week for flying drones in restricted areas. Three of them were detained near Vilnius Airport. On March 28 at around 12:20 p.m., a Belarusian citizen born in 1992 was detained in the same area. On April 1 at around 3:30 p.m., a German citizen born […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":531234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d127a3413de.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Citizen With Drone Detained Near Vilnius Airport"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-531235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531235","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=531235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}