{"id":576430,"date":"2026-09-14T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=576430"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:15:17","slug":"drone-carrying-belarusian-cigarettes-intercepted-in-lithuania-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/drone-carrying-belarusian-cigarettes-intercepted-in-lithuania-3","title":{"rendered":"Drone Carrying Belarusian Cigarettes Intercepted in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Another drone carrying Belarusian cigarettes was intercepted in Lithuania\u2019s \u0160al\u010dininkai district.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian border patrol officers spotted the drone on Sunday evening. It was intercepted using anti-drone equipment. The drone crashed 500 meters from the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, the Lithuanian Border Guard Service <a href=\"https:\/\/vsat.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/pasienyje-su-baltarusija-avarija-patyre-kontrabandininku-dronas-gabenes-cigaretes-foto-J9M\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A package containing 200 packs of Minsk Superslims cigarettes and a GPS tracker was found at the crash site. The cigarettes were valued at \u20ac1,102. Administrative proceedings have been launched.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Lithuanian border guards have already intercepted 59 smuggling drones that entered the country from Belarus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_576420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-576420\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-576420\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914-droncig-purvenai-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914-droncig-purvenai-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914-droncig-purvenai-3-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914-droncig-purvenai-3-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914-droncig-purvenai-3-516x400.jpg 516w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914-droncig-purvenai-3-1031x800.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-576420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: vsat.lrv.lt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another drone carrying Belarusian cigarettes was intercepted in Lithuania\u2019s \u0160al\u010dininkai district. Lithuanian border patrol officers spotted the drone on Sunday evening. It was intercepted using anti-drone equipment. The drone crashed 500 meters from the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, the Lithuanian Border Guard Service reported. A package containing 200 packs of Minsk Superslims cigarettes and a GPS tracker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":576429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa7f368bee24.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Drone Carrying Belarusian Cigarettes Intercepted in Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247],"class_list":["post-576430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576430","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=576430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}