{"id":580093,"date":"2026-09-23T12:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=580093"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:46:32","slug":"belarusian-cigarettes-survive-smugglers-drone-crash-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-cigarettes-survive-smugglers-drone-crash-in-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Cigarettes Survive Smugglers\u2019 Drone Crash In Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards shot down another smugglers\u2019 drone carrying cigarettes from Belarus. The drone crashed and burned, but the Belarusian cigarettes were not damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on the night from Monday to Tuesday near the village of Li\u0161kiava in \u0160al\u010dininkai District. Patrol officers heard the sound of a drone, managed to establish visual contact with it using a thermal imaging camera, and then used a drone interception device. The drone fell in a wooded area.<\/p>\n<p>The drone was found on Tuesday morning approximately 800 meters from the state border. The drone burned upon impact, but its cargo was not damaged. Two boxes containing 1,000 packs of Minsk Superslims cigarettes were seized. The shipment was valued at \u20ac5,500.<\/p>\n<p>This is already the 58th drone intercepted by Lithuanian border guards in 2026. Last year, they intercepted 59 drones.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_580060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-580060\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-580060 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag_.jpg 890w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag_-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-580060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: VSAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_580059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-580059\" style=\"width: 1450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-580059 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1450\" height=\"1088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag-4.jpg 1450w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag-4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260922-cig-dron-g.zag-4-1066x800.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-580059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: VSAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards shot down another smugglers\u2019 drone carrying cigarettes from Belarus. The drone crashed and burned, but the Belarusian cigarettes were not damaged. The incident occurred on the night from Monday to Tuesday near the village of Li\u0161kiava in \u0160al\u010dininkai District. Patrol officers heard the sound of a drone, managed to establish visual contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":580092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab3ae0b67085.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Cigarettes Survive Smugglers\u2019 Drone Crash In Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580093","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=580093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580094,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580093\/revisions\/580094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}