{"id":587406,"date":"2026-10-09T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=587406"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:41:07","slug":"lithuania-intercepts-nine-shipments-of-belarusian-cigarettes-smuggled-by-weather-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuania-intercepts-nine-shipments-of-belarusian-cigarettes-smuggled-by-weather-balloons","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Intercepts Nine Shipments of Belarusian Cigarettes Smuggled by Weather Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, October 8, Lithuanian border guards intercepted nine shipments of Belarusian cigarettes smuggled across the border using weather balloons.<\/p>\n<p>Four incidents were recorded in Var\u0117na District, three in Kai\u0161iadorys District, and one each in Ukmerg\u0117 and Panev\u0117\u017eys districts, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service <a href=\"https:\/\/vsat.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/ketvirtadieni-perimtos-9-oro-balionais-skraidintos-cigareciu-siuntos-is-viso-55-tukst-pakeliu-5XO\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the larger shipments were carried not by a single balloon but by several balloons connected to one another. GPS trackers were attached to all the loads to track their locations.<\/p>\n<p>In total, border guards intercepted 55,490 packs of cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 8, Lithuanian border guards intercepted nine shipments of Belarusian cigarettes smuggled across the border using weather balloons. Four incidents were recorded in Var\u0117na District, three in Kai\u0161iadorys District, and one each in Ukmerg\u0117 and Panev\u0117\u017eys districts, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service reported. Some of the larger shipments were carried not by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":587407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac8eef6cc97d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuania Intercepts Nine Shipments of Belarusian Cigarettes Smuggled by Weather Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143247],"class_list":["post-587406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587406","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=587406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587408,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587406\/revisions\/587408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}