Polish border guards came across a drone caught in a tree while trying to smuggle cigarettes.
Near the Polish town of Krynki, near the border with Belarus, border guards found a drone used to smuggle cigarettes. In the unmanned aircraft was a cardboard box with approximately 400 pieces of cigarette boxes, there was no sign of the tax paid to Belarus on them.
Drones and smuggler balloons
caught on a tree comes after repeated reports from Poland that cigarettes are being smuggled to our northern neighbors using the so-called meteorological balloons.
Polish border guards reported that this year they detected tobacco products smuggled using drones and balloons with a total value of 3.4 million Polish zlotys (0.8 million euros).
The Poles have so far managed to detain 29 suspects of cigarette smuggling. According to the border guard, smugglers are still looking for new ways to send illegal shipments of cigarettes from Belarus to Poland.
Russian drones and the message of the Polish Prime Minister
Drones carrying cigarettes are not the only ones that have illegally flown across the Polish border in recent months. At the beginning of September, the Poles together with their allies shot down Russian Gerbera drones.
On Monday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk published a video in which he refers to Moscow: “This is how every enemy drone, every Russian drone that flies over Polish territory will end. That’s what we’re working on. That’s why we’re investing those billions.”
