{"id":569842,"date":"2026-08-21T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=569842"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:10:37","slug":"latvia-finds-another-tunnel-under-border-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latvia-finds-another-tunnel-under-border-with-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Latvia Finds Another Tunnel Under Border With Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Latvian border guards have discovered another tunnel leading from Belarusian territory.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Aug. 20, Latvian border guards detained 28 people who had illegally crossed the border from Belarus near Kr\u0101slava. During the investigation and inspection of the surrounding area, they discovered a moss-covered, camouflaged exit from a tunnel leading from Belarus. It was located 20 meters from the border.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second tunnel discovered by Latvian border guards. The first was found on Aug. 10, when 15 people were detained.<\/p>\n<p>Tunnels have previously been discovered in Lithuania and Poland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569797\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-569797 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_2.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_2-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_2-768x346.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Valsts robe\u017esardze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569796\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-569796 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_5.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_5-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_5-768x346.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Valsts robe\u017esardze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569795\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-569795 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_6_0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_6_0.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_6_0-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_6_0-768x346.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Valsts robe\u017esardze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569794\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-569794 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_10.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_10-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dap-21.08_10-768x346.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Valsts robe\u017esardze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvian border guards have discovered another tunnel leading from Belarusian territory. On Thursday, Aug. 20, Latvian border guards detained 28 people who had illegally crossed the border from Belarus near Kr\u0101slava. During the investigation and inspection of the surrounding area, they discovered a moss-covered, camouflaged exit from a tunnel leading from Belarus. It was located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":569841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8816113d1c6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Latvia Finds Another Tunnel Under Border With Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569842","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=569842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}