{"id":544192,"date":"2026-05-21T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=544192"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:45:45","slug":"belarusian-foreign-ministry-lodges-protest-with-lithuania-over-ukrainian-drone-above-vitsyebsk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-foreign-ministry-lodges-protest-with-lithuania-over-ukrainian-drone-above-vitsyebsk-region","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Foreign Ministry Lodges Protest With Lithuania Over Ukrainian Drone Above Vitsyebsk Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Lithuanian Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires ad interim <strong><b>Erikas Vilkanecas<\/b><\/strong> and issued what it described as a \u201cstrong protest\u201d over what it called another violation of Belarusian airspace by a drone arriving from Lithuanian territory.<\/p>\n<p>According to Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesperson <strong><b>Ruslan Varankou<\/b><\/strong>, on May 17 a Ukrainian Chaika drone, allegedly heading toward Russian territory to carry out strikes, was detected near the village of Stanisla\u016dtsy in Dokshitsy District of Vitsyebsk Region. Belarus accused Lithuania of failing to prevent the military drone from crossing its territory and of not notifying the Belarusian Armed Forces in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThese actions constitute a direct threat to the security of the Republic of Belarus and represent a gross violation of international law,\u201d<\/i> the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus demanded that Lithuania investigate the incident, immediately provide detailed information about the circumstances and take comprehensive measures to prevent similar cases in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Lithuanian Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires ad interim Erikas Vilkanecas and issued what it described as a \u201cstrong protest\u201d over what it called another violation of Belarusian airspace by a drone arriving from Lithuanian territory. According to Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ruslan Varankou, on May 17 a Ukrainian Chaika drone, allegedly heading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":495289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0efe7cb7acb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Foreign Ministry Lodges Protest With Lithuania Over Ukrainian Drone Above Vitsyebsk Region"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143121,143122,143123],"class_list":["post-544192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-rossija","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544192","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=544192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}