Russian media, Telegram channels, and anonymous accounts on the social network X (formerly Twitter) are widely spreading a video that allegedly shows fragments of a Ukrainian drone on Lithuanian territory. However, this video is fake and part of another Russian information attack.

This was reported by Ukrinform.

The analyzed clip uses a large amount of graphics, and the rapid change of shots makes it difficult to identify the filming location. This points to professional editing, which is not typical of amateur footage. All of this indicates that the video was created deliberately for the purpose of disinformation.

The original source of the video is a TikTok account under the username katelynltu, which was created solely to publish this fake. The channel contains only six uninformative videos with a small number of views. The profile avatar – a photo of a girl against a winter landscape – is also used by at least two other accounts, indicating that this image is being reused for bot accounts.

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The video also tags Oleksii Stefanov, a correspondent for the Russian propaganda outlet Russia Today. In 2024, he was expelled from Latvia, where he had previously worked. There, Stefanov was also sentenced to one year in prison for propaganda.

This fake emerged against the backdrop of real Russian drone attacks on the Baltic states and Eastern Europe. In particular, on 28 July 2025 a Russian drone launched from the territory of Belarus violated Lithuania’s airspace. The Lithuanian government confirmed the incident. On 1 August, another drone again entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus. On 10 September, Russia carried out a massive drone attack on Poland, launching around 20 UAVs. On 13 September, yet another Russian drone was detected in Romanian airspace.

The information operation about a so-called “Ukrainian drone” is intended to divert the international community’s attention away from the facts of Russia’s real violations of NATO countries’ airspace.