The secretary of the Russian Security Council warned Lithuania on Tuesday that Russia could retaliate after the country, a member of the European Union (EU), put in place restrictions for certain goods transiting to the enclave of Kaliningrad.
Following Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine, Lithuania banned the transit of EU-approved goods through its territory to and from Kaliningrad, citing EU sanctions.EU.
Nikolai Patrushev, a former KGB agent and current secretary of the Russian Security Council, said the actions hostile of Lithuania showed that Russia could not trust the West.
” Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions […]. Adequate measures are being developed at an inter-ministerial level and will be taken in the near future. […]. Their consequences will have a significant negative impact on the population of Lithuania. “
Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg, capital of East Prussia, was captured from Nazi Germany by the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II. It is landlocked between Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north and east.
According to Lithuania, the ban on the transit of goods through its territory is only the implementation of European measures in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the European Union Ambassador to Moscow, Markus Ederer, to discuss the situation, which the Kremlin described on Monday as serious.
Lithuania does not take unilateral measures – it applies EU sanctionssaid Markus Ederer, quoted by RIA.
Reuters
Source: Radio-Canada
