Kaliningrad

One of President Vladimir Putin's top allies warned Lithuania on Tuesday that Russia would respond to a halt in the transit of EU-sanctioned goods to the ...

Kyiv and its allies dismissed that as a baseless pretext for a war of aggression. "Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania." Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

One of President Vladimir Putin's top allies has warned Lithuania that Russia would respond to a halt in the transit of EU-sanctioned goods to the exclave ...

The EU's envoy to Moscow urged Russia on Tuesday to refrain from "escalatory steps and rhetoric" over what Moscow calls "anti-Russian restrictions" on goods transiting between Kaliningrad and the rest of Russia, an EU spokesperson said. Kaliningrad, formerly the port of Koenigsberg, capital of East Prussia, was captured from Nazi Germany by the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union after World War II. - Kaliningrad, capital of East Prussia, was captured from Nazi Germany by the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union after World War Two

The secretary of Russia's Security Council threatened retaliation in a growing standoff with the European Union after Lithuania blocked the transit of ...

Putin ally says Moscow will respond after Lithuania shut a rail corridor from Russia to its exclave.

The Azot chemical plant is the only part of the area not yet taken by Russian troops, Haidai said. “Now the Russian army is trying to gather forces to attack Kharkiv again. “These are not only deliveries from Russia to the territory of EU countries. Russia’s partly state-owned company Alrosa is the world’s largest producer of rough diamonds. Russia withdrew from Kharkiv in mid-May after weeks of heavy bombardment. All critical infrastructure in the city has been destroyed, and there is no centralised water, electricity or gas, he said. “From what I understand they simply exhausted themselves and have stopped to regroup,” Serhiy Haidai said on television. The Russian government disagrees and is particularly angry about it,” Kane added. These strategic missiles protected in silos and bunkers in both Russia and the US have sat there, thankfully silent and immobile. Both the United States and the Soviet Union built these missiles in the hope that if they each had them then neither would be tempted to use them. The Sarmat Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, or ICBM, has been in development for years and is designed to replace the older Soviet legacy S-18 missiles. “Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions.

Russia has demanded that Lithuania swiftly lift a ban on the rail transit of some goods to and from its exclave of Kaliningrad; however, Vilnius ...

Kaliningrad Region Governor Anton Alikhanov said on June 17 that LTG Cargo, the freight transportation subsidiary of Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways), had informed the Russian exclave's railway operators of a ban on the rail transit of many products due to Western sanctions. "All hints that Russia may take some 'other measures' and that it may blockade the Lithuanian port in some special non-contact way are plucked out of thin air," Anusauskas’ Facebook post says. “Transit to the Kaliningrad region via Lithuania has not been suspended or blocked.

MOSCOW. Russia's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Markus Ederer, the European Union's ambassador to Moscow, over Lithuania's decision to ban transit of ...

Moscow conveyed its “decisive protest” to Ederer over the “unilateral anti-Russian restrictions on cargo transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation,” read a Foreign Ministry statement. Vilnius has barred the transit of goods subject to EU sanctions through Lithuanian territory to and from the Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad. Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Markus Ederer, the European Union’s ambassador to Moscow, over Lithuania’s decision to ban transit of goods under EU sanctions to Kaliningrad.

Lithuania has banned the transit of goods sanctioned by the EU to Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Kyiv and its Western backers say this is a false pretext to wage an unprovoked war of aggression. "Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania." Lithuania is implementing EU sanctions."

Russia accused the EU of starting a “blockade” of Kaliningrad after Lithuania, which controls the only overland rail route linking the exclave to the mainland, ...

Lithuanian officials said they imposed the restrictions beginning on June 20 in an effort to shore up punitive measures that followed Russia's ongoing ...

The Kremlin, meanwhile, dispatched one of President Vladimir Putin's top allies to Kaliningrad, where he warned that "appropriate measures" will be taken by Moscow "in the near future." The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday that EU Ambassador to Moscow Markus Ederer was informed of the "inadmissibility of such actions" and warned "retaliation will follow" if the restrictions aren't removed immediately. Russia has summoned the European Union's envoy to Moscow to "strongly" protest new restrictions on goods shipments to its Kaliningrad exclave through EU member Lithuania while threatening the Baltic state with "retaliation."

Tensions are mounting around the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, an isolated but strategically significant territory on the Baltic coast that could soon be ...

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Lithuania has urged NATO to increase the deployment of troops on its territory. It has a population of around one million, the majority of whom live within or near the capital city of the same name. But Kaliningrad's significance comes mostly from where it lies on the map. [Lithuania] hasn't imposed any unilateral, individual, or additional restrictions on the transit & is acting fully in accordance with EU law." Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said, "Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions. Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the Lithuanian population," according to Russia's RIA Novosti state-owned news agency.

Lithuanian ban on transit of sanctioned goods across its territory to and from Russian region has angered Kremlin.

That could cut off Lithuania and Latvia, which are north of the gap, from Poland and the rest of the EU south of it. No. The EU’s ambassador to Russia was called in for a reprimand on Tuesday. The bellicose language of retaliation from the Kremlin has gone up a gear. Russia’s security council head, Nikolai Patrushev, said on Tuesday that there would be “serious consequences” for Lithuanians “in the near future”. The EU has called for calm and a diplomatic solution. Russia’s foreign ministry accused Lithuania of breaking international law and a series of agreements on the facilitation of transit from mainland Russia that had been agreed in 2004. The Kremlin has accused Lithuania of blockading its citizens. The government says is it has merely acted on European Commission guidelines.

Lithuania imposed a ground transit ban of EU sanctioned Russian goods through its territory that will block half of all goods coming into the Russian ...

Lithuania consistently implements EU sanctions, which have different transition periods and dates of entry into force.” Kaliningrad is the only Russian port on the Baltic Sea that is ice-free year round and is an important launch point for the nation’s naval fleet. In March, the U.S. bolstered its presence in Lithuania, bringing the number of soldiers stationed in the country to around 1,000. Kaliningrad relies heavily on imports from Russia for goods and materials. The move comes on top of the EU flight ban of 21 Russian-certified airlines in April, preventing goods from being flown into Kaliningrad as well. The ban will also cut off Kaliningrad’s only oil pipeline from Russia.

KYIV: Russia warned Lithuania on Tuesday (Jun 21) that it would face measures of a "serious negative impact" for blocking some shipments by rail to Moscow's ...

This could boost Moscow's hopes of cutting off Lysychansk from Ukrainian-held territory. There was no immediate Russian comment. Advertisement It is connected to the rest of Russia by a rail link through EU- and NATO-member Lithuania. Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov announced on Tuesday the arrival of powerful German self-propelled howitzers. Advertisement

Much of the trade between the Russian mainland and Kaliningrad flows through Lithuania. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Much of the trade between the Russian mainland and Kaliningrad flows through Lithuania, which is now refusing to let through rail shipments of Russian goods that are targeted by EU sanctions. Russia's toehold in Europe is also a hub for trade between Russia and eastern Europe and was a magnet for foreign investment before the war, with BMW among a handful of foreign automakers that assembled vehicles in its Special Economic Zone. Founded in 1255, the city was the home of the kings of Prussia and the birthplace of 18th-century philosopher Emmanuel Kant.