Up to 25 smuggling balloons from Belarus forced a temporary shutdown of Vilnius Airport. Authorities seized 18,000 packs of contraband cigarettes from recovered balloons. The breach heightened Baltic ...

Vilnius Airport in Lithuania, a Baltic EU member country close to Ukraine and Russia, was shut down on Saturday due to an incursion of small flying objects. But this time it wasn't Vladimir Putin ...

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 ...

Lithuania was forced to suspend air traffic at Vilnius Airport last night after dozens of balloons used by smugglers entered its airspace from Belarus. It marked the second time in a month that the ...

Lithuania closed Vilnius airport overnight after dozens of cigarette-smuggling balloons entered its airspace, the country’s National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC) has said. The disruption, which ...