{"id":601784,"date":"2026-11-11T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=601784"},"modified":"2026-11-11T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:50:59","slug":"belarus-warns-lithuania-of-possible-approaching-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-warns-lithuania-of-possible-approaching-drones","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Warns Lithuania of Possible Approaching Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On the evening of November 10, Belarus warned Lithuania about unidentified objects flying in its direction. Lithuanian Defence Minister <b>Robertas Kaunas<\/b> said this in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/pl\/wiadomosci\/1261\/3111090\/minister-bialorus-ostrzegla-o-mozliwych-dronach-lecacych-w-kierunku-litwy\">LRT<\/a>. Following the warning, a yellow-level air alert was declared in Vilnius and Utena counties.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAt 10:47 p.m., we received information through a technical channel from the Belarusian side that unidentified objects were flying towards Lithuania and that Belarus was attempting to neutralise them. [&#8230;] The objects did not enter Lithuanian airspace but turned towards Latvia and Russia,\u201d<\/i> Kaunas said.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after midnight, another drone entered Lithuanian airspace. According to the minister, a few minutes later it crossed the border into Poland, then returned to Lithuania and, after flying over its territory, continued on to Latvia. Yellow or red-level air alerts were declared in the areas over which it flew.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian Prime Minister <b>Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/naujienos\/lietuvoje\/2\/3111017\/premjeras-prie-birzu-rastos-is-nato-naikintuvo-paleistos-raketos-nuolauzos\">said<\/a> that four drones had been detected in the region overnight. NATO fighter jets attempted to shoot down a drone flying over Lithuania. Debris from a missile fired by the jets was found near Bir\u017eai.<\/p>\n<p>Kaunas said the most likely explanation was that the drones were Ukrainian and had been heading towards the port of Ust-Luga and other targets in Russia but had deviated from their course. Lithuania is investigating the incidents together with Poland, Latvia and Estonia, the minister added.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/air-alerts-declared-in-lithuania-latvia-and-estonia-over-drone-sightings\">Reform.news previously reported<\/a>, air alerts were also declared in Latvia and Estonia on the night of November 11. Restrictions on air traffic temporarily disrupted operations at Vilnius and Kaunas airports.<\/p>\n<p>That same night, a <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukraine-attacks-russia-s-ust-luga-port-in-leningrad-region-sparking-fire\">fire broke out in the port area of Ust-Luga following a drone attack<\/a>. Leningrad Region Governor <b>Alexander Drozdenko<\/b> reported the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of November 10, Belarus warned Lithuania about unidentified objects flying in its direction. Lithuanian Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas said this in an interview with LRT. Following the warning, a yellow-level air alert was declared in Vilnius and Utena counties. \u201cAt 10:47 p.m., we received information through a technical channel from the Belarusian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":601785,"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\/11\/6af43a88a8ae5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus Warns Lithuania of Possible Approaching Drones"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-army"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601784","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=601784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601786,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601784\/revisions\/601786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}