Lithuanian authorities have announced that a ban on the passage of products subject to EU sanctions from their territory to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad will take effect from today, according to Reuters.
The news of the ban came on Friday, through a video posted by the governor of the region Anton Alikhanov.
The EU sanctions list includes mainly coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology, and Alikhanov said the ban would cover about 50% of the goods imported by Kaliningrad.
The immediate start was confirmed by the Lithuanian Railways’s freight department in a letter to its customers following “clarifications” from the European Commission on the mechanism for enforcing the sanctions.
A spokesman for the agency confirmed the contents of the letter, but declined to comment further. The Foreign Ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
Kaliningrad, which lies between EU and NATO members Poland and Lithuania, receives supplies from Russia via railways and gas pipelines through Lithuania.
The enclave, home to the Russian Baltic Fleet, was captured by Nazi Germany from the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II.
Source: Capital
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