In Polish Bialystok a weather balloon, presumably used by smugglers, was found - this was reported in the police of Podlasie ...

Border guards in Volyn Oblast have found a package of Belarusian cigarettes that smugglers may have been attempting to send to EU countries using a balloon. Source: State Border Guard Service of ...

Cigarette smuggling into Lithuania is ordinary cross-border crime that should be tackled through joint efforts, not a hybrid ...

Polish authorities detained five people Thursday in connection with a smuggling operation that used weather balloons to transport cigarettes from Belarus, causing millions in tax losses and disrupting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this undated photo released by the State Border Guard Service, an officer inspects a balloon used to carry cigarettes ...

At first, they might not seem like much of a threat: weather balloons, filled with helium or hydrogen, carrying bundles of cigarettes from Belarus. But as the number of these balloons crossing into ...

MINSK, 9 December (BelTA) - Lithuania is beginning to inflate and politicize the issue of weather balloons carrying cigarettes, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a meeting of the ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania(AP) — Lithuanian authorities said Tuesday they had arrested 21 people allegedly connected to a criminal network that smuggled cigarettes using specially equipped weather balloons ...