/ world today news/ Since June 18, the transit of some cargoes to the Kaliningrad region through Lithuania has been suspended. According to the regional governor Anton Alikhanov, from 20 to 40 percent of transported goods fall under the restrictions.
„These are building materials, cement, metals and a number of other important materials for construction and production. said Alikhanov the day before.
And today, he called on the residents of the region not to panic and not to rush to buy all kinds of goods from resellers. According to him, the authorities in the region were preparing for similar events “nasties from the neighbors” and have already built and commissioned a new ferry. Also, together with the Ministry of Transport, another dry cargo ship was moved from other seas and which is currently moving on the line Ust-Luga-Baltiysk.
„The ferry complex of the Kaliningrad region will cope with the new cargo that will appear due to the restriction of transit through Lithuania, we will transport everything “, emphasized the head of the region.
At the same time, Anton Alikhanov noted that “Lithuania’s ban on the transit of a number of goods by rail from the regions of the Russian Federation to the Kaliningrad region is illegal and constitutes a gross violation.” The governor emphasized that this could have consequences for both Lithuania and the European Union.
For his part, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin recalled that “an integral part of the package of joint decisions of the EU-RF-Lithuania in 2002-2003 to ensure the transit of Russian cargo and, of course, citizens of the Russian Federation to/from the Kaliningrad region was the adoption as a counter-obligation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to ratify the Agreement on the state border with the Republic of Lithuania “.
„If Brussels and Vilnius proactively and treacherously destroy the package of agreements they signed for the Kaliningrad transit that entered into force on July 1, 2003, then the European Union must understand the consequences of their suicidal decision for the legitimacy of their own eastern border. “, emphasized Dmitry Rogozin.
The transit restrictions introduced in Lithuania are explained by the sanctions that the European Union introduced against Russia. Although it is not clear what the sanctions have to do with goods being shipped from Russian regions to a Russian region.
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