On the night of Wednesday 29 July 2026, officers at VSAT's Gintaro Žagunio Border Post, near Norviliškės village, picked up the sound of drones approaching from Belarus. They confirmed the acoustic detection with thermal-imaging cameras, which showed multiple unmanned aircraft in the sky at once - the crossing point lies inside the Dieveniškės Loop, a section of Lithuanian territory surrounded on three sides by Belarus.
Anti-drone equipment brought three aircraft down; one was found roughly 50 metres from the border
Border guards activated their anti-drone equipment to block the suspected crossing zone. A search of the area located a downed aircraft in forest near Norviliškės village, about 50 metres from the state border, with two packages wrapped in black polyethylene attached to it. VSAT's account puts the total at three drones intercepted in the operation, carrying a combined 3,000 packs of Belarusian-stamped cigarettes.
A different Dieveniškės Loop incident from the one already in AirVeto's archive
This is a separate event from the 3-metre fixed-wing drone intercepted in the Dieveniškės Loop on 22 June 2026, which involved a single aircraft with a parachute system and no cargo. The Loop's geography - Lithuanian territory bordered by Belarus on three sides - makes it a recurring crossing point independent of any single incident. By VSAT's count, the service had landed 38 contraband drones from Belarus in under seven months of 2026 by the time of this intercept.
A full record of border and airspace incidents over Lithuanian territory is at Dronai Lietuvoje. The full incident archive is at incident archive.