{"id":541750,"date":"2026-05-13T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=541750"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:38:15","slug":"weather-balloon-carrying-cigarettes-lands-in-kaunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/weather-balloon-carrying-cigarettes-lands-in-kaunas","title":{"rendered":"Weather Balloon Carrying Cigarettes Lands in Kaunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A weather balloon landed in Kaunas on the night of 12-13 May. Boxes containing 9,000 packs of Belarusian cigarettes were attached to it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/crime\/nochyu-v-kaunase-prizemlilsya-meteozond-s-shestyu-korobkami-belorusskih-sigaret-120249248\">reports<\/a> Delfi.<\/p>\n<p>Because of weather balloons flying from Belarus, Vilnius Airport <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-closed-overnight-due-to-smugglers-weather-balloons\">temporarily suspended operations overnight<\/a>. One flight was redirected to another airport, while another was cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weather balloon landed in Kaunas on the night of 12-13 May. Boxes containing 9,000 packs of Belarusian cigarettes were attached to it, reports Delfi. Because of weather balloons flying from Belarus, Vilnius Airport temporarily suspended operations overnight. One flight was redirected to another airport, while another was cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":541749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a04468ba590f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Weather Balloon Carrying Cigarettes Lands in Kaunas"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143247,143120],"class_list":["post-541750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret","tag-meteozondy"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541750","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=541750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}