A drone crashed in northern Lithuania on Sunday morning after entering the country’s airspace from Poland, officials said. The report, dated 18 October 2026, was published by TVNET, LETA and LRT.
Defence minister Roberts Kauns told journalists that, according to preliminary information, the object is believed to have flown into Lithuanian airspace from Poland. He said he had contacted Poland’s defence minister and asked Poland to join the investigation so both sides could examine the incident together.
Kauns said the latest police information suggested the debris may have damaged a civilian car. He added that the debris had been found, the area had been cordoned off, and police were collecting all available information.
Vilmants Vitkausks, head of the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC), told LRT that the object was most likely a Ukrainian unmanned aircraft that may have entered Lithuania while Kyiv carried out an attack on the St Petersburg region.
Authorities later confirmed that drone debris struck and damaged a car travelling on a road in northern Lithuania. No one was injured.
Prime minister Mindaugs Sinkevičs said a person driving from Birži to Pasvale heard an explosion. Debris damaged the driver’s personal car, including a door. Sinkevičs described this as the initial account from the person at the scene and said an explosion had apparently taken place.
The defence minister said fighter jets were scrambled after the object was spotted, but the pilots could not see it because of poor weather.
Lithuanian police checked reports that morning of a possible drone crash in Pasvale municipality, which borders Latvia’s Bauska municipality. According to preliminary information reported by LRT, debris was found in Juodžoņi village in Pasvale district.
Other reports on the same day said a possible airspace threat in the Bauska, Aizkraukle and Ogre municipalities had ended, and that a drone did not enter Latvian territory on Sunday.