Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausèda said his country was ready for some form of retaliation from Russia after banning the transit of some goods subject to European Union sanctions on its territory and in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
“We are ready and prepared for some kind of hostile action on the Russian side, disconnection from the Brell system or other actions,” Nausèda said, speaking to Reuters in a video published on Wednesday.
The Brell system is an electrical grid shared between Russia, Belarus and the Baltic states.
He said he does not believe Russia will challenge Lithuania militarily because his country is a member of NATO.
Nauseda defended the decision to block the passage of some goods, saying that they must implement what was decided at the European Union level.
“We have just implemented the sanctions, which were imposed at the level of the European Union, and this has nothing to do with bilateral relations between Russia and Lithuania,” said Nauseda.
“We are looking forward to implementing the next steps of the sanctions, and it would be very good for the European Commission to explain the content of the sanctions to the Russian authorities and would likely remove some of the tensions that are emerging now,” he added, warning that the escalation of tensions will not benefit either of the parties. sides.
On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said retaliatory measures for Lithuania’s ban on transit of EU-sanctioned goods to Russia through Kaliningrad were being discussed.
Peskov did not elaborate on what those measures could entail and said there was no exact timeline for Moscow’s response.
Source: CNN Brasil
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