{"id":542354,"date":"2026-05-14T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=542354"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:09:38","slug":"weather-balloon-carrying-cigarettes-arrives-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/weather-balloon-carrying-cigarettes-arrives-in-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Weather Balloon Carrying Cigarettes Arrives In Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lithuanian border guards discovered<\/a> another weather balloon carrying cigarettes that had arrived from Belarus.<\/p>\n

On May 13, border guards on duty in the \u0160al\u010dininkai district noticed a descending balloon. At the landing site, they found the remains of the weather balloon and a package containing 1,500 packs of cigarettes. The border guards set up an ambush.<\/p>\n

Several hours later, a man approached the fallen weather balloon. He had no identification documents with him, but border guards established that the cargo was being collected by a 23-year-old local resident.<\/p>\n

The man was detained. The cigarettes, valued at 8,265 euros, were taken to a border outpost.<\/p>\n

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Lithuanian border guards discovered another weather balloon carrying cigarettes that had arrived from Belarus. On May 13, border guards on duty in the \u0160al\u010dininkai district noticed a descending balloon. At the landing site, they found the remains of the weather balloon and a package containing 1,500 packs of cigarettes. The border guards set up an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":542353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a060fe5dc73a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Weather Balloon Carrying Cigarettes Arrives In Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247,143120],"class_list":["post-542354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret","tag-meteozondy"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542354","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=542354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}