{"id":585238,"date":"2026-10-05T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=585238"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:23:28","slug":"lithuanian-border-guards-shoot-down-another-drone-used-by-cigarette-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-border-guards-shoot-down-another-drone-used-by-cigarette-smugglers","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Border Guards Shoot Down Another Drone Used by Cigarette Smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania\u2019s State Border Guard Service reported intercepting another drone used by cigarette smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>The drone was spotted on Saturday near the settlement of Tribonys. Border guards used an interception device, causing the UAV to lose control and crash. A search was launched, and the drone was soon found 2 km from the settlement. It was carrying 320 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes bearing Belarusian excise stamps.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 61st drone intercepted since the beginning of the year. In 2025, Lithuanian border guards intercepted 59 UAVs throughout the entire year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_585171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-585171\" style=\"width: 1175px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-585171 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1175\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-6.jpg 1175w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-6-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-6-1067x800.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1175px) 100vw, 1175px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-585171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: VSAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_585170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-585170\" style=\"width: 1230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-585170 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1230\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-3.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261005-dronas-trib-3-1066x800.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1230px) 100vw, 1230px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-585170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: VSAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania\u2019s State Border Guard Service reported intercepting another drone used by cigarette smugglers. The drone was spotted on Saturday near the settlement of Tribonys. Border guards used an interception device, causing the UAV to lose control and crash. A search was launched, and the drone was soon found 2 km from the settlement. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":585237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac37aa38b397.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Border Guards Shoot Down Another Drone Used by Cigarette Smugglers"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585238","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\/585238","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=585238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585240,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585238\/revisions\/585240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}