Krakūnai is a village in Lithuania on the border with Belarus.

It is an old village, mentioned as early as 1433 when Jonas Goštautas received Dieveniškės and 26 surrounding villages from Grand Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis.

[2] On 19 May 1991 Lithuanian border patrol Gintaras Žagunis was killed in the village by Soviet OMON forces.

It was the first deadly assault on a Lithuanian border post.

A five-meter tall monument in his memory was erected in 2004,[3] in the west part of the village