One Russian detained at Brest for tossing hashish under minibus
On 15 August 2026 a Russian citizen was detained at the Brest checkpoint after border guards found a hashish packet he had quietly thrown under the wheels of the minibus he was crossing the Polish border in. Border guards opened two criminal cases against him, and he was held in the Brest border group's temporary detention facility.
On 15 August 2026 border guards at the Brest checkpoint detained a Russian
citizen suspected of trying to bring hashish from Poland into Belarus.[1]Belarus’s State Border Committee said guards in the Brest crossing stopped an
attempt to move a narcotic from Poland into Belarus that day.[2]The man was
crossing the border in a minibus.[1]During the inspection he went to the
driver and quietly dropped the packet under the vehicle’s wheels.[1]Border
guards recorded him doing it.[3]He was detained and placed in the temporary
detention facility of the Brest border group.[1]
A border detail working with a service dog found the paper packet beside the
passport-control booth.[2]
Investigators opened two criminal cases against the man, for illegal drug
trafficking and for moving drugs across the border.[1]The cases were brought
under Part 1 of Article 328 and Part 1 of Article 328-1 of Belarus’s Criminal
Code.[3]
Photos and video
Screenshot from a State Border Committee of Belarus video of the detention at the Brest checkpoint. Screenshot: MOST, from state border committee videoPhoto details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Agency type
Border guard
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Land border
Case stage
Under investigation
Route
Poland → Belarus via Brest
Sources
MOST Mediamostmedia.ioRUРоссиянина задержали при въезде из Польши в Беларусь. Под колеса микроавтобуса он выбросил гашиш
БелТАbelta.byRUИностранец в пункте пропуска "Брест" выбросил наркотики под колеса микроавтобуса, надеясь скрыть следы
СБ. Беларусь сегодняsb.byRUИностранец попытался выбросить наркотик на границе в Бресте, но его задержали
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No weight for the hashish packet was published, so no cannabis quantity can be recorded.
The detained man is identified only as a Russian citizen; his name, age and any lawyer were not published.
Some outlets reported him as bringing the drug in from Poland, others described an attempt to take it out of Belarus; this report follows the border committee's own account of movement from Poland into Belarus.
No charges, trial or verdict were reported beyond the two opened criminal cases, and his custody status beyond the temporary detention facility is unknown.
The page image is a screenshot from a border committee video; it is linked, not copied, because the footage belongs to the Belarusian state.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in БелТА: The packet held a brown substance that forensic testing later identified as hashish, a cannabis resin.
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