{"id":558457,"date":"2026-07-09T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=558457"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:46:42","slug":"drone-carrying-cigarettes-intercepted-on-the-lithuanian-belarusian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/drone-carrying-cigarettes-intercepted-on-the-lithuanian-belarusian-border","title":{"rendered":"Drone Carrying Cigarettes Intercepted on the Lithuanian-Belarusian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards intercepted another drone carrying cigarettes from Belarus, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service <a href=\"https:\/\/vsat.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/pasienieciams-peremus-kontrabandininku-skraidykles-su-rukalais-valdyma-si-teskesi-i-zeme-foto-S7x\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the night of July 8, cameras detected a small object flying from Belarus in the \u0160al\u010dininkai district. It was forced to land using counter-drone equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The improvised drone was found about 500 metres from the border. A package attached to it contained 1,000 packs of Belarusian cigarettes. The cargo was valued at \u20ac5,460.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 31st smuggling drone intercepted by Lithuanian border guards since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_558354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558354\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-558354\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709-dron-purven-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709-dron-purven-3.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709-dron-purven-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709-dron-purven-3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709-dron-purven-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709-dron-purven-3-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260709-dron-purven-3-1067x800.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-558354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: vsat.lrv.lt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards intercepted another drone carrying cigarettes from Belarus, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service reported. During the night of July 8, cameras detected a small object flying from Belarus in the \u0160al\u010dininkai district. It was forced to land using counter-drone equipment. The improvised drone was found about 500 metres from the border. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":558456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4fa645e35e7.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Drone Carrying Cigarettes Intercepted on the Lithuanian-Belarusian Border"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558457","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=558457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}