A drone has crashed in the Utena district of northern Lithuania, with initial assessments suggesting it is of Ukrainian origin, authorities have said.
The National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) said it received reports at around 19:00 local time on Sunday that a drone had been found crashed in a field near Samanė village.
At a press conference that evening, NKVC director Vilmantas Vitkauskas said the aircraft appeared to be a military drone, though he cautioned that further details were pending.
"It has crashed, but there are no signs of an explosion. Whether it carries a warhead or not is difficult to say at this stage," Vitkauskas said, adding that more precise information would be available once a specialist team had returned from the scene.
Lithuanian military radar did not detect the drone earlier in the day, according to the armed forces. The incident was reported by local residents/
