Moscow is preparing serious retaliatory measures to restrict railway transit of goods in the Kaliningrad region.
Moscow will soon respond to Vilnius ’decision to blockade transport in the Kaliningrad region, and the people of Lithuania will feel the consequences of these measures. This was announced on June 21 by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, reports Interfax.
“Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions. Appropriate measures are being taken in an interdepartmental format and will be taken in the near future. Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania,” the statement said. politician at a meeting in Kaliningrad.
Recall, on June 18, Lithuania blocked railway transit in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation up to 50% of the goods that fell under EU sanctions.
According to the explanation of the European Commission, if the sanctions goods and freight go from one part of Russia to another, but through EU territory, their transportation should be prohibited.
This provoked a strong reaction in the Kremlin. Russia’s chief of staff Dmitry Peskov called Lithuania’s restrictions “unprecedented and illegal,” and Andrey Klimov, head of the Federation Council’s commission for the protection of state sovereignty, vowed to resolve the dispute. “Vilnius’s impudent trick” somehow.
Source: korrespondent
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