{"id":498197,"date":"2025-11-24T11:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=498197"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:46:37","slug":"seven-smuggling-balloons-with-illegal-cigarettes-detected-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/seven-smuggling-balloons-with-illegal-cigarettes-detected-in-latvia","title":{"rendered":"Seven Smuggling Balloons With Illegal Cigarettes Detected in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Latvia has also faced a wave of smuggling balloons. The issue was reported on TV3 by <strong>Rihards Kozlovskis<\/strong>, the country\u2019s minister of the interior.<\/p>\n<p>The meteorological balloons did not pose a threat to air traffic, as Latvia has no airports in its border regions. Meanwhile, operations at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania were disrupted twice between Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Since Sunday evening, Latvian services have detected seven balloons carrying contraband. Each balloon transports around 60,000 cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Kozlovskis noted that search operations are ongoing. He urged residents of border areas to inform the police if they find such balloons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvia has also faced a wave of smuggling balloons. The issue was reported on TV3 by Rihards Kozlovskis, the country\u2019s minister of the interior. The meteorological balloons did not pose a threat to air traffic, as Latvia has no airports in its border regions. Meanwhile, operations at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania were disrupted twice between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":498196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/69241b74c3118.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Seven Smuggling Balloons With Illegal Cigarettes Detected in Latvia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}