{"id":549239,"date":"2026-06-08T22:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=549239"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:06:15","slug":"weather-balloon-carrying-belarusian-cigarettes-lands-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/weather-balloon-carrying-belarusian-cigarettes-lands-in-latvia","title":{"rendered":"Weather Balloon Carrying Belarusian Cigarettes Lands in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On June 6, Latvian border guards discovered a weather balloon in Aug\u0161daugava Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Attached to the balloon was a package containing 20,000 Belarusian-made NZ Gold cigarettes. A criminal investigation has been launched, the Latvian Border Guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rs.gov.lv\/posts\/pfbid02b9sMyAovfX53yLVSYqKds88d15hNGXZ4MJLBcwQHvsRGjnUf9PuTohBfgsHHMYxol\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_549196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-549196\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-549196\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/718992731_1331968712404222_9104201139114589740_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/718992731_1331968712404222_9104201139114589740_n.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/718992731_1331968712404222_9104201139114589740_n-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/718992731_1331968712404222_9104201139114589740_n-1120x1024.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/718992731_1331968712404222_9104201139114589740_n-768x702.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/718992731_1331968712404222_9104201139114589740_n-438x400.jpg 438w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/718992731_1331968712404222_9104201139114589740_n-875x800.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-549196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: facebook.com\/rs.gov.lv<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_549194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-549194\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-549194\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/719585881_1331968739070886_5479768942161873590_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/719585881_1331968739070886_5479768942161873590_n.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/719585881_1331968739070886_5479768942161873590_n-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/719585881_1331968739070886_5479768942161873590_n-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/719585881_1331968739070886_5479768942161873590_n-498x400.jpg 498w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/719585881_1331968739070886_5479768942161873590_n-996x800.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-549194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: facebook.com\/rs.gov.lv<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6, Latvian border guards discovered a weather balloon in Aug\u0161daugava Municipality. Attached to the balloon was a package containing 20,000 Belarusian-made NZ Gold cigarettes. A criminal investigation has been launched, the Latvian Border Guard reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a27670b23648.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Weather Balloon Carrying Belarusian Cigarettes Lands in Latvia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247,143171,143120],"class_list":["post-549239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret","tag-latvija","tag-meteozondy"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549239","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}