A smuggler's balloon carrying thousands of contraband cigarettes was found on Estonia's frozen Lake Peipus on Tuesday morning ...

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 men over balloon-smuggled cigarettes from Belarus, as rising cross-border incidents force airspace limits and tighter security. View on euronews ...

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 ...

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 ...

Polish border guards recorded around 200 balloon-borne cigarette smuggling attempts last year along the country’s border with ...

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 ...