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The EU is urging Russia to refrain from escalating the Kaliningrad issue

The European Union (EU) envoy to Moscow on Tuesday called on Russia to refrain from any “escalating steps and rhetoric” over what Moscow calls “anti-Russian restrictions” on the transfer of Russian goods between the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, the Baltic Sea and the rest of the Baltic Sea. Russia, stressed an EU representative.

“Our ambassador conveyed our position on the Russian attack on Ukraine and explained that Lithuania is applying EU sanctions. There is no blockade of Kaliningrad. He called on the Russians to refrain from any escalation steps and rhetoric,” he said. Stano, according to Reuters.

The Russian Foreign Ministry had earlier called on the EU ambassador to Moscow to request the resumption of land transport via Lithuania from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad, with the Russian authorities saying they would respond “accordingly” if the situation did not improve.

Lithuania, a member of the EU, the eurozone and NATO, recently closed the railway corridor from Russia to the Russian enclave for certain basic goods, mainly construction materials, metals and coal, which are included in the sanctions imposed on Russia. the EU on Saturday.

Source: Capital

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