{"id":558840,"date":"2026-07-10T17:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=558840"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:39:13","slug":"two-drones-carrying-belarusian-cigarettes-fly-into-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/two-drones-carrying-belarusian-cigarettes-fly-into-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Two Drones Carrying Belarusian Cigarettes Fly Into Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards intercepted two drones carrying cigarettes that had flown in from Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>The unmanned aerial vehicles were detected overnight into Thursday in the \u0160al\u010dininkai District. They were brought down using anti-drone equipment. Each drone was carrying two boxes containing 500 packs of Queen Menthol cigarettes. The total value of the 2,000 packs of cigarettes is estimated at \u20ac10,920.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-trial investigation has been launched, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service <a href=\"https:\/\/vsat.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/salcininku-rajone-vsat-pareigunai-nutupde-dvi-skraidykles-su-11-tukst-euru-vertes-cigareciu-kroviniu-foto-jQK\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_558805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558805\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-558805\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-2-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-2-.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-2--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-2--1200x899.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-2--768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-2--534x400.jpg 534w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-2--1068x800.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-558805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: vsat.lrv.lt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_558806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558806\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-558806\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-4.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-4-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-4-1200x701.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-4-768x449.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260710-dron-salc.r-4-684x400.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-558806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: vsat.lrv.lt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards intercepted two drones carrying cigarettes that had flown in from Belarus. The unmanned aerial vehicles were detected overnight into Thursday in the \u0160al\u010dininkai District. They were brought down using anti-drone equipment. Each drone was carrying two boxes containing 500 packs of Queen Menthol cigarettes. The total value of the 2,000 packs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":558839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a510414b8f93.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Two Drones Carrying Belarusian Cigarettes Fly Into Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247],"class_list":["post-558840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558840","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=558840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}