Lithuania blocks the transit of many goods from Russia to Kaliningrad. Or how to look for trouble and risk finding them
Lithuania has communicated to the Russian Kaliningrad region that it will block the import and export of large numbers of goods through the railway network, passing through the so-called "Suwalki Corridor" , due to economic sanctions imposed by the West, has declared the governor of the Russian region on the border with Germany.
The region – home to the Russian Baltic fleet and location of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles – is located on the Baltic coast between Lithuania and Poland, both members of NATO, and has no land border with Russia.
Governor Anton Alikhanov said on Friday that the squeeze will affect between 40 and 50% of products imported and exported from Russia via Lithuania. this does not put the Kaliningrad region in difficulty, which can be easily supplied by ship from St Petersburg via the Baltic, but it marks yet another step forward in the strategy of tension between Russia and the West, in a region where Russia has recently begun to contest the independence of the Baltic country, a member of NATO and the EU. All while Russia drops gas supplies to EU countries that have no alternatives available anytime soon.
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