{"id":562864,"date":"2026-07-27T13:31:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=562864"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:57:22","slug":"lithuanian-border-guards-intercept-fixed-wing-drone-at-belarus-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-border-guards-intercept-fixed-wing-drone-at-belarus-border","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Border Guards Intercept Fixed-Wing Drone at Belarus Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards have intercepted another smuggling drone. This time, officers brought down a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>According to the State Border Guard Service of Lithuania, a patrol in \u0160al\u010dininkai District heard the sound of a drone engine on Saturday evening. A counter-drone device was used to disable the unmanned aircraft, causing it to crash. Shortly afterward, officers found the fixed-wing drone about 500 meters from the state border. It was carrying 200 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes bearing Belarusian excise stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, Lithuanian border guards have intercepted 35 drones used for smuggling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_562843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-562843\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-562843 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260727-dron-purven.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260727-dron-purven.jpg 960w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260727-dron-purven-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260727-dron-purven-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260727-dron-purven-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260727-dron-purven-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-562843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: VSAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards have intercepted another smuggling drone. This time, officers brought down a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft. According to the State Border Guard Service of Lithuania, a patrol in \u0160al\u010dininkai District heard the sound of a drone engine on Saturday evening. A counter-drone device was used to disable the unmanned aircraft, causing it to crash. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":562863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6747a7e2803.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Border Guards Intercept Fixed-Wing Drone at Belarus Border"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562864","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\/562864","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=562864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}