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Propaganda techniques are a key tool for creating misleading content, often disseminated in native languages to increase their impact. Therefore, it is increasingly important to develop detection models not only for high-resource languages but also for low-resource languages, which still face significant limitations in propaganda detection. This study presents the first approach to automated propaganda technique detection in Lithuanian using the HALT-PROP corpus. We adapt the standard framework to account for frequent overlap between techniques. Experiments with the Lithuanian transformer LT-MLKM-modernBERT show that BILOU tagging improves span identification, while sentence classification based on span-level information enhances technique detection for most techniques. The results also indicate that training separate binary classifiers is more effective than multi-label classification in this setting. Overall, the proposed approach outperforms GPT-5.3 on most techniques and provides a strong baseline for propaganda technique detection in Lithuanian.