
Belarus' President Aliaksandr Lukashenka threatened to seize over 1,000 Lithuanian trucks stranded in his country on Monday, following the closure of the border after repeated incursions by weather balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes.
Lithuania, a NATO and European Union member, closed the two border crossings with Belarus on 29 October after the meteorological balloons flying from Belarus caused repeated disruption to air traffic at the airport in the capital Vilnius.