{"id":539268,"date":"2026-05-05T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=539268"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:28:39","slug":"lithuanian-customs-destroys-3-9-million-belarusian-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-customs-destroys-3-9-million-belarusian-cigarettes","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Customs Destroys 3.9 Million Belarusian Cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian customs authorities destroyed Belarusian contraband cigarettes. A total of 195,000 packs, or 3.9 million cigarettes, were sent to a special shredder.<\/p>\n<p>According to customs officials, the shredder ensures that tobacco products become completely unusable. After destruction, the shredded cigarettes are mixed with biological and chemical substances, which guarantees the environmental safety of the final waste.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539235\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-539235 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ladqcvzuzoy-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lithuanian Customs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539234\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-539234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/h5x5gkoeouo-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lithuanian Customs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian customs authorities destroyed Belarusian contraband cigarettes. A total of 195,000 packs, or 3.9 million cigarettes, were sent to a special shredder. According to customs officials, the shredder ensures that tobacco products become completely unusable. After destruction, the shredded cigarettes are mixed with biological and chemical substances, which guarantees the environmental safety of the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69f99c2c57e8a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Customs Destroys 3.9 Million Belarusian Cigarettes"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539268","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}