{"id":559859,"date":"2026-07-15T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=559859"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:33:57","slug":"russian-and-belarusian-detained-with-drugs-at-russian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russian-and-belarusian-detained-with-drugs-at-russian-border","title":{"rendered":"Russian and Belarusian Detained With Drugs at Russian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Vitsyebsk customs officers detained Russian and Belarusian citizens who were travelling across the Belarusian-Russian border with drugs.<\/p>\n<p>During an inspection of the Russian citizen&#8217;s car, a transparent bag containing a plant-based substance was found in a suitcase. In the second case, a foil packet containing a prohibited substance was found on a Belarusian driver, the State Customs Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/customs_bel\/13530\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An examination established that the seized substances were marijuana and hashish.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal cases have been opened against the Russian and Belarusian citizens. They face up to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_559824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559824\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-559824\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-15_14-59-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-15_14-59-33.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-15_14-59-33-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-15_14-59-33-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-15_14-59-33-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-15_14-59-33-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-559824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: State Customs Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitsyebsk customs officers detained Russian and Belarusian citizens who were travelling across the Belarusian-Russian border with drugs. During an inspection of the Russian citizen&#8217;s car, a transparent bag containing a plant-based substance was found in a suitcase. In the second case, a foil packet containing a prohibited substance was found on a Belarusian driver, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":559858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a578c48adeb5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russian and Belarusian Detained With Drugs at Russian Border"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559859","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\/559859","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=559859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}