Drone Carrying Belarusian Cigarettes Flies Into Latvia
Reform.news Editorial Team · 31 August 2026, 15:47
https://reform.news/en/drone-carrying-belarusian-cigarettes-flies-into-latvia/A drone carrying Belarusian cigarettes flew into Latvia. Latvian border guards intercepted the shipment before the smugglers could retrieve it.
On August 30, border guards found a drone in a forest in Latvia’s Augšdaugava Municipality with a box attached to it. The box contained 15,000 NZ Gold cigarettes bearing Belarusian excise stamps.
A criminal case has been opened, the Latvian State Border Guard reported.