{"id":557978,"date":"2026-07-08T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=557978"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:10:01","slug":"belarusian-transported-20-tonnes-of-pork-fat-to-russia-disguised-as-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-transported-20-tonnes-of-pork-fat-to-russia-disguised-as-vegetables","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Transported 20 Tonnes of Pork Fat to Russia Disguised as Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A truck carrying 20 tonnes of Belarusian pork fat has been detained in Russia&#8217;s Smolensk region.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a Belarusian citizen, presented Rosselkhoznadzor inspectors with documents declaring the cargo as frozen beetroot, potatoes and carrots. An inspection revealed that the pallets of vegetables served only as cover, while the main cargo consisted of pork fat.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was placed in temporary storage pending the completion of the inspection, Rosselkhoznadzor <a href=\"https:\/\/32.fsvps.gov.ru\/news\/v-smolenskoj-oblasti-rosselhoznadzorom-presechena-popytka-vvoza-svinogo-zhira-po-dokumentam-na-zamorozhennye-ovoshhi\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_557955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-557955\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-557955\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_9201-2048x1325-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_9201-2048x1325-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_9201-2048x1325-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_9201-2048x1325-1-1200x776.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_9201-2048x1325-1-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_9201-2048x1325-1-618x400.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-557955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Rosselkhoznadzor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck carrying 20 tonnes of Belarusian pork fat has been detained in Russia&#8217;s Smolensk region. The driver, a Belarusian citizen, presented Rosselkhoznadzor inspectors with documents declaring the cargo as frozen beetroot, potatoes and carrots. An inspection revealed that the pallets of vegetables served only as cover, while the main cargo consisted of pork fat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":557977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4e3e1eea57e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Transported 20 Tonnes of Pork Fat to Russia Disguised as Vegetables"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557978","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=557978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}