{"id":547519,"date":"2026-06-02T14:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=547519"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:22:52","slug":"lithuanian-border-guards-down-drone-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-border-guards-down-drone-from-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Border Guards Down Drone From Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards intercepted a drone arriving from Belarus on Sunday evening, the State Border Guard Service said.<\/p>\n<p>A patrol operating near the village of Tausi\u016bnai heard the sound of a drone, identified the aircraft and deployed counter-drone equipment. Shortly afterwards, the drone disappeared from view.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday afternoon, after a search operation, officers found the damaged drone near the settlement of Joni\u0161kis. It was carrying 500 packs of Minsk 5 Superslims cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, border guards have already brought down 21 drones used by smugglers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_547489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-547489\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-547489 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img-20260601-wa0020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img-20260601-wa0020.jpg 900w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img-20260601-wa0020-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img-20260601-wa0020-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img-20260601-wa0020-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img-20260601-wa0020-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img-20260601-wa0020-225x400.jpg 225w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img-20260601-wa0020-450x800.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-547489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: VSAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards intercepted a drone arriving from Belarus on Sunday evening, the State Border Guard Service said. A patrol operating near the village of Tausi\u016bnai heard the sound of a drone, identified the aircraft and deployed counter-drone equipment. Shortly afterwards, the drone disappeared from view. On Monday afternoon, after a search operation, officers found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":547518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a1ebd0fe67d2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Border Guards Down Drone From Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547519","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=547519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}