{"id":576829,"date":"2026-09-15T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=576829"},"modified":"2026-09-15T20:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:33:33","slug":"lithuanian-defense-minister-downed-drone-was-carrying-explosives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-defense-minister-downed-drone-was-carrying-explosives","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Defense Minister: Downed Drone Was Carrying Explosives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The drone shot down in Lithuania was carrying an explosive device. It was neutralized by bomb disposal experts, Lithuanian Defense Minister <strong><b>Robertas Kaunas<\/b><\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201cOperation Shield is complete. According to the final data, an explosive device was found. Bomb disposal experts neutralized it. Specialists will continue to examine and analyze the drone,\u201d<\/i><\/em> Kaunas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/robertas.kaunas\/posts\/10229804475170284\">wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The drone entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus during the night of September 14-15. It was shot down near Kaunas. Belarus <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-did-not-notify-lithuania-about-drone-air-force-commander-says\">did not notify the Lithuanian side<\/a> about the drone. Lithuania\u2019s Foreign Ministry plans to send Belarus a protest note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drone shot down in Lithuania was carrying an explosive device. It was neutralized by bomb disposal experts, Lithuanian Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas said. \u201cOperation Shield is complete. According to the final data, an explosive device was found. Bomb disposal experts neutralized it. Specialists will continue to examine and analyze the drone,\u201d Kaunas wrote on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":505786,"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\/09\/6aa981716e59b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Defense Minister: Downed Drone Was Carrying Explosives"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143291,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-army","category-world","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576829","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=576829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}