{"id":583829,"date":"2026-10-01T13:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=583829"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:13:56","slug":"kubrakou-says-drugs-are-being-smuggled-from-poland-to-belarus-using-weather-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/kubrakou-says-drugs-are-being-smuggled-from-poland-to-belarus-using-weather-balloons","title":{"rendered":"Kubrakou Says Drugs Are Being Smuggled From Poland to Belarus Using Weather Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian Interior Minister <strong>Ivan Kubrakou<\/strong> drew his colleagues\u2019 attention to the use of weather balloons at a meeting of the Council of Interior Ministers of the CIS countries, the Interior Ministry\u2019s press service <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/pressmvd\/25018\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drug traffickers are using weather balloons to transport drugs from Poland to Belarus for onward transit to Russia, Kubrakou said.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThis year, we have encountered a new method of illegally moving large consignments across our country\u2019s western borders\u2014using weather balloons equipped with geolocation and mobile communications systems. Multiple cases have been identified in which they were transported from Poland for onward transit to the Russian Federation,\u201d<\/i> Kubrakou said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, more than 142 kg of narcotic substances brought into Belarus using weather balloons have been seized in the Hrodna region.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Belarus\u2019s Interior Ministry did not explain how smugglers use weather balloons to transport cigarettes from Belarus to Lithuania and Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakou drew his colleagues\u2019 attention to the use of weather balloons at a meeting of the Council of Interior Ministers of the CIS countries, the Interior Ministry\u2019s press service reports. Drug traffickers are using weather balloons to transport drugs from Poland to Belarus for onward transit to Russia, Kubrakou said. \u201cThis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":583828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6abe40774ac1c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Kubrakou Says Drugs Are Being Smuggled From Poland to Belarus Using Weather Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[143120],"class_list":["post-583829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident","tag-meteozondy"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583829","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=583829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583830,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583829\/revisions\/583830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}