Event 639

{
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "Belarus",
    "LT",
    "Air"
  ],
  "border_violation_modes": [
    "Air"
  ],
  "category": "Uncategorized",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Multiple direct quotations from the legislative action, official statements from Interior Ministry and Border Guard Service, and statistics of aerial border violations strongly support the event characterization.",
  "countries": [
    "Lithuania",
    "Belarus"
  ],
  "country": "Lithuania",
  "defense_prep": {
    "links": [
      "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2411812/lithuania-allows-border-guards-to-shoot-down-drones"
    ],
    "title": "??Lithuania legalizes shooting down drones at border"
  },
  "description": "Lithuania's parliament adopted amendments empowering border officers to shoot down drones and other flying objects following repeated incidents involving smuggling and border crossers using drones and weather balloons from Belarus.",
  "event_time_utc": "2024-11-12T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Parliamentary amendment granting authority to shoot down drones due to repeated cross-border incidents.",
    "Referenced data on number of weather balloons from Belarus entering Lithuania."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "On Tuesday, Lithuania's parliament adopted amendments allowing officers to shoot down drones and other flying objects. This follows a series of incidents involving weather balloons and drones carrying contraband from Belarus reaching as far as Vilnius.",
    "Previously, Interior Vice Minister Vitalij Dmitrijev said the amendments are aimed at curbing smuggling using aircraft, drones and weather balloons.",
    "A total of 351 weather balloons have been recorded entering Lithuania from Belarus this year, of which 138 were found and intercepted."
  ],
  "extra": {
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Parliamentary amendment granting authority to shoot down drones due to repeated cross-border incidents.",
            "Referenced data on number of weather balloons from Belarus entering Lithuania."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Lithuania allows border guards to shoot down drones",
  "location_text": "Lithuania-Belarus border",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_639_1763933443_4059de34.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "??Lithuania legalizes shooting down drones at border",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2411812/lithuania-allows-border-guards-to-shoot-down-drones"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Lithuania legalizes use of force by border guards to shoot down unauthorized drones after repeated airspace violations involving contraband from Belarus.",
  "url": "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2411812/lithuania-allows-border-guards-to-shoot-down-drones"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "LT Air",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "LT",
  "Date": "12-Nov-24",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "??Lithuania legalizes shooting down drones at border",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2411812/lithuania-allows-border-guards-to-shoot-down-drones",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "??Lithuania legalizes shooting down drones at border",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}