{"id":543257,"date":"2026-05-18T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=543257"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:30:33","slug":"drone-crashes-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/drone-crashes-in-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Drone Crashes in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Drone wreckage was discovered on Sunday evening in Lithuania\u2019s Utena district near the settlement of Samanys. No signs of an explosion were found.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAccording to the preliminary data, what we can see from the wreckage and the information sent by our colleagues, (&#8230;) this is most likely a Ukrainian drone,\u201d<\/i> head of the National Crisis Management Center <b>Vilmantas Vitkauskas<\/b> said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/bns.lt\/naujiena\/nkvc-vadovas-pirminiai-pozymiai-rodo-kad-utenos-rajone-nukrito-ukrainietiskas-dronas-dar-papildytas-dszv7qc2\">BNS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently impossible to determine exactly when the drone crossed into Lithuanian airspace. As the agency notes, Latvian military personnel detected a drone entering the country\u2019s airspace early Sunday morning before it later left Latvia\u2019s airspace. Lithuanian military forces did not detect the UAV entering the country.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Updated at 8:50 a.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>State Border Guard Service representative <b>Gedrius Mi\u0161utis<\/b> told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/naujienos\/kriminalai\/i-lietuva-skrendanti-drona-dar-paryciais-pastebejo-vsat-120251295\">Delfi<\/a> that the drone had been spotted by a border patrol monitoring the Belarusian border on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cA border guard stationed about 3 km from the border heard a sound resembling that of an unmanned aerial vehicle. Using a thermal imaging device, he spotted an object flying from the border deeper into Lithuania,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mi\u0161utis, border guards cannot determine the drone\u2019s origin or characteristics, but the military had been informed about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drone wreckage was discovered on Sunday evening in Lithuania\u2019s Utena district near the settlement of Samanys. No signs of an explosion were found. \u201cAccording to the preliminary data, what we can see from the wreckage and the information sent by our colleagues, (&#8230;) this is most likely a Ukrainian drone,\u201d head of the National Crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0ace2cdbdcf.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Drone Crashes in Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543257","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=543257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}