Cigarette bundles smuggled through balloons from Belarus

Balloon Threat Evolves: F-22 Raptor Shootdown a Chinese Spy Balloon, NATO Now Grapples With Cigarette-Laden Balloons Over Its Eastern Flank

NATO is grappling with an unusual but increasingly disruptive challenge along its eastern border: balloons filled with helium or hydrogen drifting in from Belarus into the airspace of Lithuania and Poland. At first glance, the objects appear almost farcical—low-tech, slow-moving,...