{"id":503249,"date":"2025-12-17T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=503249"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:03:43","slug":"weather-balloon-with-belarusian-cigarettes-found-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/weather-balloon-with-belarusian-cigarettes-found-in-ukraine","title":{"rendered":"Weather Balloon With Belarusian Cigarettes Found in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A weather balloon carrying Belarusian cigarettes has been found in Ukraine. This was reported by the Western Regional Directorate of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Border guards discovered a package containing tobacco products in the Shatsk area, near the border. The Ukrainian service suggested that the smugglers intended to transport the cigarettes to European Union countries.<\/p>\n<p>The package contained 1,500 packs of Minsk cigarettes, two GPS trackers with SIM cards from Belarusian and Polish mobile operators, as well as fragments of a weather balloon.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-503249 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/weather-balloon-with-belarusian-cigarettes-found-in-ukraine\/attachment\/596549947_1190608319916262_8817457163662626678_n'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/596549947_1190608319916262_8817457163662626678_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/596549947_1190608319916262_8817457163662626678_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/596549947_1190608319916262_8817457163662626678_n-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/596549947_1190608319916262_8817457163662626678_n-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/weather-balloon-with-belarusian-cigarettes-found-in-ukraine\/attachment\/588092536_1190608376582923_8406575586012039190_n'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/588092536_1190608376582923_8406575586012039190_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/588092536_1190608376582923_8406575586012039190_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/588092536_1190608376582923_8406575586012039190_n-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/588092536_1190608376582923_8406575586012039190_n-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/weather-balloon-with-belarusian-cigarettes-found-in-ukraine\/attachment\/597316996_1190608313249596_697783303714536912_n'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/597316996_1190608313249596_697783303714536912_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/597316996_1190608313249596_697783303714536912_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/597316996_1190608313249596_697783303714536912_n-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/597316996_1190608313249596_697783303714536912_n-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/weather-balloon-with-belarusian-cigarettes-found-in-ukraine\/attachment\/598940833_1190608409916253_7378963705392711930_n'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598940833_1190608409916253_7378963705392711930_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598940833_1190608409916253_7378963705392711930_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598940833_1190608409916253_7378963705392711930_n-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598940833_1190608409916253_7378963705392711930_n-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weather balloon carrying Belarusian cigarettes has been found in Ukraine. This was reported by the Western Regional Directorate of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Border guards discovered a package containing tobacco products in the Shatsk area, near the border. The Ukrainian service suggested that the smugglers intended to transport the cigarettes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":503244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/694280057aea5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Weather Balloon With Belarusian Cigarettes Found in Ukraine"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503249","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=503249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}