{"id":577236,"date":"2026-09-16T17:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=577236"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:19:36","slug":"drone-carrying-belarusian-cigarettes-intercepted-in-lithuania-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/drone-carrying-belarusian-cigarettes-intercepted-in-lithuania-4","title":{"rendered":"Drone Carrying Belarusian Cigarettes Intercepted in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Border guards in Lithuania’s \u0160al\u010dininkai District intercepted a drone that had flown from Belarus carrying a shipment of cigarettes. The aircraft was brought down using anti-drone equipment about one kilometer from the state border, the State Border Guard Service of Lithuania reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred on the night of September 15-16 near the village of Norvili\u0161k\u0117s. Border guards heard the characteristic sound of a drone coming from the direction of Belarus. Using a portable thermal imaging camera, they detected the aircraft with a rectangular package attached to it.<\/p>\n

The drone was forced to land. Boxes bearing the logo of the Grodno-based Neman tobacco factory and wrapped in black polyethylene film were attached to the drone. The boxes contained 1,000 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes. Their value is estimated at \u20ac5,510.<\/p>\n

Administrative proceedings have been launched.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Photo: vsat.lrv.lt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Border guards in Lithuania’s \u0160al\u010dininkai District intercepted a drone that had flown from Belarus carrying a shipment of cigarettes. The aircraft was brought down using anti-drone equipment about one kilometer from the state border, the State Border Guard Service of Lithuania reported. The incident occurred on the night of September 15-16 near the village of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":577235,"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\/6aaac19d5a8cb.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-577236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577236","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=577236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}