Three People Suspected of Smuggling Cigarettes by Weather Balloons Detained in Vilnius
Officers of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service detained three people in Vilnius suspected of involvement in smuggling…
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Kubrakou Says Drugs Are Being Smuggled From Poland to Belarus Using Weather Balloons
Belarusian Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakou drew his colleagues’ attention to the use of weather balloons at a meeting…
Lithuania Expects to Receive Countermeasures Against Smugglers’ Weather Balloons by End of 2027
Lithuania is holding a new competition to develop countermeasures against weather balloons used by smugglers. A competition was…
Lithuania Hands Belarus Protest Note Over Weather Balloons
On Sept. 23, Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry handed the chargé d’affaires of Belarus in Lithuania a protest note over…
Vilnius Airport Suspended Operations Due To Smugglers’ Weather Balloons
Vilnius Airport suspended operations overnight due to weather balloons used by smugglers. According to the airport operator, restrictions…
Four Weather Balloons Carrying Smuggled Cigarettes Found in Poland
Polish authorities discovered four weather balloons carrying loads of smuggled cigarettes without Polish excise stamps in Podlaskie Voivodeship,…
Psychotropic Drugs on Weather Balloons: Interior Ministry Says It Disrupted Drug Trafficking Route From Poland
Belarus’s Interior Ministry says it has uncovered a drug trafficking route used to transport narcotics from Poland to…
NATO Mission Forces Put on Alert After Weather Balloon Enters Lithuania from Belarus
The head of the National Crisis Management Centre, Vilmantas Vitkauskas, commented on LRT regarding today’s air threat warning…
Meteorological Balloon Triggered Air Alert in Vilnius
The Lithuanian Armed Forces on Saturday issued a yellow-level air alert to residents of Vilnius County after radar…
Weather Balloon Carrying Belarusian Cigarettes Lands in Latvia
On June 6, Latvian border guards discovered a weather balloon in Augšdaugava Municipality. Attached to the balloon was…
Lithuania to Adapt Balloon Interception Systems for Drone Defense
Lithuanian Economy and Innovation Minister Edvinas Grikšas has said that a new solution designed to protect the country’s…
Lithuanian Ordered to Pay More Than €40,000 for Smuggling Cigarettes Using a Weather Balloon
A Lithuanian citizen has been fined heavily for smuggling Belarusian cigarettes using a weather balloon. He was also…
Lithuania Disrupts Major Belarusian Cigarette Smuggling Route Using Weather Balloons, Three Detained
Lithuanian police have dismantled an organised scheme for smuggling cigarettes bearing Belarusian excise stamps in the Šalčininkai District.…
Lithuania Submits Additional Materials to ICAO on Weather Balloons Entering From Belarus
Lithuania has submitted additional materials to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) containing evidence of a hybrid attack…
Lithuania Protests To Belarus Over Airspace Violation
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the chargé d’affaires of the Belarusian embassy and expressed a strong protest…
Weather Balloon Carrying Cigarettes Arrives In Lithuania
Lithuanian border guards discovered another weather balloon carrying cigarettes that had arrived from Belarus. On May 13, border…
Lithuanian Police Conduct Raid Against Smugglers, Four People Detained
Lithuanian police on May 12-13 conducted an operation targeting individuals involved in cigarette smuggling from Belarus using weather…
Weather Balloon Carrying Cigarettes Lands in Kaunas
A weather balloon landed in Kaunas on the night of 12-13 May. Boxes containing 9,000 packs of Belarusian…
Unidentified Weather Balloon Found Near Warsaw
A resident of the village of Duchnów in Otwock County found an unidentified weather balloon in a forest…
Lithuania Threatens to Close Border With Belarus Again
Lithuania has threatened to restrict movement at border crossing points on the Belarusian border and take other measures…
Belarusian and Pole Detained in Poland for Smuggling Cigarettes by Weather Balloons
Police in Bialystok detained a 24-year-old Polish citizen and a 36-year-old Belarusian citizen. They are accused of smuggling…
Vilnius Airport Closed Overnight Due To Weather Balloons
Operations at Vilnius Airport were disrupted again overnight. As LRT reports, flights at the airport were suspended at…
Weather Balloons with Cigarettes Fall Near Warsaw
On Saturday, two weather balloons carrying cigarettes fell in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship, writes RMF FM. The first incident…
Weather Balloon Carrying Cigarettes Lands In Lithuanian Yard
A weather balloon carrying cigarettes landed overnight Thursday in the yard of a resident in the town of…
More Weather Balloons Carrying Cigarettes Arrive In Poland
In Poland, two people have been detained for transporting cigarettes smuggled from Belarus using weather balloons. Polish border…
Weather Balloons Again Disrupt Operations at Vilnius Airport
During the night of March 21–22, temporary airspace restrictions were вновь introduced at Vilnius Airport after objects resembling…
Lukashenka Says Balloon-Borne Smuggling Devices Pose No Threat to Aircraft
Alyaksandr Lukashenka said that meteorological balloons used to smuggle cigarettes from Belarus into Lithuania do not pose a…
Lithuania Calls Inclusion of Weather Balloons in EU Anti-Drone Plan a Diplomatic Victory
The Lithuanian Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence supports the European Commission’s action plan to counter drone-related…
Vilnius Airport Closed Again Due to Weather Balloons
Airspace over Vilnius Airport was closed from 21:46 to 23:35 after navigation markers resembling weather balloons used for…
Six More Suspects Detained in Lithuania Over Cigarette Smuggling by Balloons
Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service (VSAT) has detained six more people suspected of involvement in cigarette smuggling using…
Balloons May Have Been Launched From Belarus To Assist Russian Attack On Ukraine
During the night of March 5, amid another Russian air attack on Ukraine, the Ukrainian monitoring channel eRadar…