US EditionBelarus leader threatens to seize over 1,000 Lithuanian trucks stuck by closed border
Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka threatened to confiscate up to 1,200 Lithuanian trucks stranded due to a border closure over smuggled cigarettes in weather balloons.
- The leader of Belarus, Lukashenko, threatened to seize over 1,200 Lithuanian trucks stuck in Belarus due to a closed border with Lithuania because of smuggling issues.
- Belarusian authorities refuse to open a corridor for the trucks and insist on a full border reopening instead.
- Lukashenko criticized Lithuania's border closure, calling it a 'mad scam' and a part of a 'hybrid war' against Belarus.
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A representative of the Embassy of Belarus was called "on the carpet" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko threatened today to seize about 1,200 Lithuanian trucks detained in Belarus.
Belarus' authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko threatened on Monday to seize more than a thousand Lithuanian trucks stuck at the border, which the Lithuanian government closed in late October after weather balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes from Belarus repeatedly entered the Baltic country. Lukashenko said up to 1,200 Lithuanian trucks were stuck in Belarus because of the border closure, the AP reports.
It's been a week since hot air balloons caught our attention. Not for entertainment, but rather for industrial purposes. Unfortunately, they don't bring joy, but deep concern. Unlike their classic purpose - to provide excitement, adrenaline and enjoy the scenery from a bird's eye view, the latter are designed to create the opposite effect: to disrupt our peace and plans (especially at airports), to distract us and highlight a kind of helplessnes…
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Belarus leader threatens to seize over 1,000 Lithuanian trucks stuck by closed border
Belarus’ authoritarian leader is threatening to seize over 1,000 Lithuanian trucks stranded in the country following the closure of its border with Lithuania after repeated incursions by air balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes.
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