The drone was detected shortly after midnight local time and shot down after about 30 minutes over the central part of the country. It is unclear where the drone came from.
It still remains to be identified what type of drone it is, Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of the Lithuanian Emergency Management Agency, told public service broadcaster LRT.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda thanked NATO after the operation.
"As Russia escalates its aggression against Ukraine, such preparedness is crucial for our region. Together with our NATO allies, Lithuania will defend its airspace," he writes on X.
