{"id":540606,"date":"2026-05-08T22:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=540606"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:37:42","slug":"another-cigarette-smuggling-drone-arrives-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/another-cigarette-smuggling-drone-arrives-in-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Another Cigarette-Smuggling Drone Arrives in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards intercepted another drone carrying cigarettes that had crossed from Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>The drone was spotted in the \u0160al\u010dininkai District on the morning of May 7. It was brought down using anti-drone equipment.<\/p>\n<p>At the crash site, officers found a box containing 850 packs of Minsk Capital QS cigarettes. Their estimated value is 4,683 euros, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service <a href=\"https:\/\/vsat.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/pasienieciams-panaudojus-antidrona-kontrabandininku-skraidykle-su-kroviniu-teskesi-i-zeme-foto-uPP\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, Lithuanian border guards have intercepted 17 cigarette-smuggling drones.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_540509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-540509\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-540509\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-3-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-3-1176x1024.jpg 1176w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-3-768x669.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-3-459x400.jpg 459w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-3-919x800.jpg 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-540509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: vsat.lrv.lt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_540511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-540511\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-540511\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-6.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-6-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-6-1183x1024.jpg 1183w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-6-768x665.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-6-462x400.jpg 462w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260508-dron-purven-6-924x800.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-540511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: vsat.lrv.lt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards intercepted another drone carrying cigarettes that had crossed from Belarus. The drone was spotted in the \u0160al\u010dininkai District on the morning of May 7. It was brought down using anti-drone equipment. At the crash site, officers found a box containing 850 packs of Minsk Capital QS cigarettes. Their estimated value is 4,683 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":540605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69ff0069a6667.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Another Cigarette-Smuggling Drone Arrives in Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247],"class_list":["post-540606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540606","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=540606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}