"As to an X-ray machine in Kena, we are making every effort to make it available as soon as possible," she told reporters. "It would be the safest possible solution and one in line with national security interests."

Earlier this week, officers from the Customs Criminal Service found almost 80,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes in a shipment of Belaruskali fertilizers brought to Lithuania by rail.

The service says Lithuanian officers have been finding large consignments of smuggled cigarettes on trains from Belarus almost every week lately.

The Lrt.lt online news site reported in May that Lithuania could not effectively prevent the smuggling of Belarusian cigarettes, because trains were not being X-rayed. Lithuania has not purchased a new machine after the old one broke down back in 2016.

Lithuanian intelligence warns that wagons are loaded with cigarettes in Belarus' state-owned factories.

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