Another Batch of Weather Balloons Carrying Smuggled Cigarettes Lands in Poland

Reform.news Editorial Team · 23 October 2026, 08:21

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Polish border guards discovered three shipments of contraband brought from Belarus by air. The Nadbużański Border Guard Unit reported the incidents.

On October 15, eight boxes of cigarettes were found near Lubartów. They were wrapped in black plastic, and fragments of a weather balloon were found nearby. A total of 12,000 packs of cigarettes worth 250,000 zlotys were recovered.

On October 16, two boxes with balloons attached to them were discovered near Lublin. A total of 3,000 packs of cigarettes worth 62,000 zlotys were seized.

Later that day, another 6,000 packs of cigarettes that had been smuggled across the border using weather balloons were found near Siedlce.