{"id":590825,"date":"2026-10-19T09:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=590825"},"modified":"2026-10-19T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:21:48","slug":"polish-border-guards-find-three-weather-balloons-carrying-smuggled-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-border-guards-find-three-weather-balloons-carrying-smuggled-cigarettes","title":{"rendered":"Polish Border Guards Find Three Weather Balloons Carrying Smuggled Cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Polish border guards have uncovered another shipment of airborne contraband. This time, smugglers used three weather balloons linked together. They landed in the village of Mazan\u00f3wka in Bia\u0142a Podlaska County.<\/p>\n<p>The weather balloons carried 15,000 packs of cigarettes of various brands across the border without Polish excise stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Border guards believe Belarus is the most likely point of origin for the contraband. A search is underway for those involved in transporting the goods.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_590777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590777\" style=\"width: 1155px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-590777 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1155\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357965.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357965-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357965-578x1024.jpg 578w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357965-768x1362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357965-866x1536.jpg 866w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357965-451x800.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1155px) 100vw, 1155px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-590777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stra\u017c Graniczna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_590776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590776\" style=\"width: 1155px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-590776 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1155\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357966.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357966-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357966-578x1024.jpg 578w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357966-768x1362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357966-866x1536.jpg 866w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357966-451x800.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1155px) 100vw, 1155px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-590776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stra\u017c Graniczna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_590775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590775\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-590775 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357967.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357967-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12-357967-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-590775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stra\u017c Graniczna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish border guards have uncovered another shipment of airborne contraband. This time, smugglers used three weather balloons linked together. They landed in the village of Mazan\u00f3wka in Bia\u0142a Podlaska County. The weather balloons carried 15,000 packs of cigarettes of various brands across the border without Polish excise stamps. Border guards believe Belarus is the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":590829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad5c5102dd82.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Border Guards Find Three Weather Balloons Carrying Smuggled Cigarettes"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590825","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\/590825","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=590825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590831,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590825\/revisions\/590831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}