{"id":531807,"date":"2026-04-07T13:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=531807"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:53:29","slug":"lithuanian-border-guards-brought-down-drone-carrying-contraband-cigarettes-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-border-guards-brought-down-drone-carrying-contraband-cigarettes-from-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Border Guards Brought Down Drone Carrying Contraband Cigarettes From Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards brought down a drone carrying contraband cigarettes from Belarus. The incident took place in Var\u0117na District near the settlement of Dubas.<\/p>\n<p>Patrol officers heard a characteristic sound in the dark, then detected the drone using a thermal imaging camera and employed counter-drone equipment. The drone crashed.<\/p>\n<p>The drone was carrying 1,000 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes with Belarusian excise stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, the Lithuanian Border Guard Service has intercepted 11 drones carrying contraband.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_74665\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TXg4B6a8wRI?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=ru&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards brought down a drone carrying contraband cigarettes from Belarus. The incident took place in Var\u0117na District near the settlement of Dubas. Patrol officers heard a characteristic sound in the dark, then detected the drone using a thermal imaging camera and employed counter-drone equipment. The drone crashed. The drone was carrying 1,000 packs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":531806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d4fe51b86bb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Border Guards Brought Down Drone Carrying Contraband Cigarettes From Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531807","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=531807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}