{"id":551236,"date":"2026-06-16T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=551236"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:13:23","slug":"lithuanian-border-guards-bring-down-cigarette-drone-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-border-guards-bring-down-cigarette-drone-from-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Border Guards Bring Down Cigarette Drone From Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards brought down another smuggling drone on Sunday. It was the 22nd such incident since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>While on patrol, border guards spotted a small object flying from the direction of the border. A counter-drone system was deployed. Shortly afterwards, the unmanned aircraft disappeared from view. The downed drone was found in a field near the settlement of Dimitrai.<\/p>\n<p>The drone was carrying 200 packs of Belarusian NZ Gold cigarettes. The value of the shipment is estimated at 1,100 euros.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 59 drones were intercepted, while in 2024 authorities intercepted 54 cigarette-carrying drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards brought down another smuggling drone on Sunday. It was the 22nd such incident since the beginning of the year. While on patrol, border guards spotted a small object flying from the direction of the border. A counter-drone system was deployed. Shortly afterwards, the unmanned aircraft disappeared from view. The downed drone was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":551235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3105a688b1b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Border Guards Bring Down Cigarette Drone From Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551236","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=551236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}