Geopolitics

The balloons from Belarus “carry a highly lucrative cargo: contraband cigarettes. […] Cigarettes smuggled into the EU […] are sold at a 300% markup, allowing profits to be shared by the regime, the organizers of the smuggling operations, and the intermediaries.”
https://balticsentinel.eu/8351399/the-worst-of-lithuania-

“Vilnius regards this smuggling operation as being orchestrated by the Minsk regime, similarly to the migrant attacks on the borders of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland that have been ongoing since 2021.”

“Vilnius regards this smuggling operation as being orchestrated by the Minsk regime, similarly to the migrant attacks on the borders of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland that have been ongoing since 2021.”
https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2025-10-30/lithuania-closes-its-border-belarus-a-month