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 ...

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 ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Tensions between Lithuania and Belarus have escalated after meteorological balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport in the past weeks, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...