{"id":559854,"date":"2026-07-15T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=559854"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:33:03","slug":"polish-border-guards-detain-lithuanians-who-came-to-collect-weather-balloon-carrying-cigarettes-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-border-guards-detain-lithuanians-who-came-to-collect-weather-balloon-carrying-cigarettes-from-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Polish Border Guards Detain Lithuanians Who Came to Collect Weather Balloon Carrying Cigarettes From Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Polish border guards detained two Lithuanian citizens who had come to collect contraband cigarettes transported from Belarus using a weather balloon.<\/p>\n<p>The Lithuanians were caught red-handed in the Sura\u017c municipality. They had come to collect 350 packs of cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, border guards in Podlasie have intercepted a total of 1,760 packs of cigarettes worth 420,000 zlotys. All of them were sent into Poland using weather balloons.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of this year, 24 people involved in aerial smuggling have been detained.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_559822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559822\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-559822 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352017.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352017-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352017-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352017-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352017-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-559822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stra\u017c Graniczn\u0430<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_559820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559820\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-559820 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352019.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352019-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352019-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352019-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352019-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-559820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stra\u017c Graniczn\u0430<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish border guards detained two Lithuanian citizens who had come to collect contraband cigarettes transported from Belarus using a weather balloon. The Lithuanians were caught red-handed in the Sura\u017c municipality. They had come to collect 350 packs of cigarettes. In recent days, border guards in Podlasie have intercepted a total of 1,760 packs of cigarettes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":559853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a578c13c5909.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Border Guards Detain Lithuanians Who Came to Collect Weather Balloon Carrying Cigarettes From Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559854","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=559854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}