{"id":577055,"date":"2026-09-16T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=577055"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:18:04","slug":"nauseda-a-gerbera-drone-was-shot-down-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/nauseda-a-gerbera-drone-was-shot-down-in-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Nauseda: A Gerbera Drone Was Shot Down In Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Russian Gerbera drone was shot down in Lithuania last night. President <strong>Gitanas Naus\u0117da<\/strong> identified its type. According to him, there are currently no signs that the drone\u2019s entry into Lithuanian airspace was a deliberate action.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAt the moment, according to the information available, it was a Gerbera-type drone.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The electronic data is currently being analyzed, and it appears that we will be able to recover the information and obtain much more detail about where it came from, how and under what circumstances it entered (Lithuanian airspace \u2014 Reform.news).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It was probably not a deliberate action against Lithuania. Most likely, it was a Russian drone intended for Ukraine that was diverted from its course by Ukrainian electronic warfare systems and entered our country\u2019s territory, where it was shot down. Of course, in the future, when we have additional information, we will certainly provide it,\u201d<\/i> Naus\u0117da was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/naujienos\/lietuvoje\/2\/3054170\/nauseda-dronas-tikriausiai-buvo-rusiskas-skirtas-ukrainai-pulti-bet-nukrypes-nuo-kurso\">quoted<\/a> as saying by LRT.<\/p>\n<p>The drone was shot down in Lithuanian airspace shortly after midnight on September 15. Its fragments fell near the settlement of Pratkunai, located not far from the Kruonis Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant. No one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that the UAV entered Lithuania from the direction of Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that a <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/poland-detonates-warhead-from-russian-drone-found-on-beach\">drone<\/a> of the same type, but a newer modification, washed ashore in Poland several days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian Gerbera drone was shot down in Lithuania last night. President Gitanas Naus\u0117da identified its type. According to him, there are currently no signs that the drone\u2019s entry into Lithuanian airspace was a deliberate action. \u201cAt the moment, according to the information available, it was a Gerbera-type drone. The electronic data is currently being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":570541,"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\/6aaa6ce0758ef.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Nauseda: A Gerbera Drone Was Shot Down In Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090,143094],"tags":[143118,143122],"class_list":["post-577055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics","category-incident","tag-belarus","tag-rossija"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577055","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=577055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}