VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania on Monday expanded the list of goods going to or coming from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad which it prohibits transit through its territory, in accordance with the timetable for the gradual implementation of measures previously announced by the European Union.
Russia can no longer send or receive concrete, wood, alcohol and alcohol-based industrial chemicals to or from Kaliningrad via Lithuania since Monday, a Lithuanian customs spokesman said.
Russia warned Lithuania and the European Union on Friday that it could adopt “severe measures” against them if the transit of certain goods to and from Kaliningrad did not resume “in the coming days”.
Some European politicians and business executives are particularly concerned that Russia will extend the shutdown of the Nord Stream pipeline carrying its gas to Germany beyond the scheduled 10-day maintenance period.
Kaliningrad borders Lithuania and Poland, member states of NATO and the European Union. Since June 17, this coastal territory has been deprived of certain goods from the rest of Russia under sanctions imposed by the European Union following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
(Report Andrius Sytas in Vilnius, French version Augustin Turpin)
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