{"id":149801,"date":"2025-08-06T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/149801\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"security-officers-seize-weather-balloons-drones-from-man-in-hrodna","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/149801\/","title":{"rendered":"Security officers seize weather balloons, drones from man in Hrodna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 6,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Security officers on August 4 seized weather balloons, drones and GPS trackers from a man in Hrodna suspected of involvement in illegal activity, the State Border Committee reported. It did not specify whether the man faces criminal charges. Investigators suspect that he manufactured the drones in his garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smugglers often use weather balloons and drones to send cigarettes across the border to the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first half of the year, Lithuania seized more than 805,000 packs of cigarettes smuggled from Belarus by air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/140125\/\">Latvian border guards intercept balloon carrying smuggled Belarusian cigarettes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Security officers on August 4 seized weather balloons, drones and GPS trackers from a man in Hrodna suspected of involvement in illegal activity, the State Border Committee reported. It did not specify whether the man faces criminal charges. Investigators suspect that he manufactured the drones in his garage. Smugglers often use weather balloons and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[21],"class_list":["post-149801","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Security officers seize weather balloons, drones from man in Hrodna | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 6,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Security officers on August 4 seized weather balloons, drones and GPS trackers from a man in Hrodna suspected of involvement\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/149801\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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