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- Incident · 2026-10-31

Šumskas balloon, Oct 30 - 3,000 packs of cigarettes
Border guards found a balloon with 3,000 packs of Belarusian cigarettes near Šumskas, Vilnius District, and detained two local men who came to collect it, VSAT said on October 30, 2026. - Incident · 2026-10-28

Juozapavičiai balloons, Oct 24 - 33 km downwind
Border guards saw smuggling balloons at Gerdašiai on October 24, 2026, followed them to Juozapavičiai and found 12,000 packs of cigarettes in two places. - Incident · 2026-10-26

Kaunas airport balloon closure, Oct 24 - 2 flights diverted
Airspace restrictions over Kaunas Airport began at 23:37 local on October 24, 2026 after balloon-type navigation markers appeared; two flights were diverted. - Incident · 2026-10-22

Padotnuvys and Šakniai balloons, Oct 21 - two hit power lines
Two contraband balloons hit power lines in Lithuania's Kėdainiai and Kaišiadorys districts on October 21, 2026, and burned; police found close to 20,000 packs of cigarettes. - Incident · 2026-10-13

Two drones at Adutiškis and Šiulgiai, October 9-11, 2026
VSAT border guards took control of two cigarette-carrying drones from Belarus on the nights of October 9 and 10, 2026, and say they have landed 63 drones this year. - Incident · 2026-10-09

Lithuania balloon cargos, Oct 8 - nine, 55,490 packs
Border guards and police intercepted nine balloon-borne cigarette cargoes from Belarus in four Lithuanian districts overnight and on the morning of October 8, 2026.
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