Rail Ban on Goods To Support Isolated Russian Region Has Moscow Seeing Red
The powerful secretary of the Kremlin’s Security Council visited the Kaliningrad region and vowed during a national security meeting to take action over the ban.
A ripple effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spilled over to Lithuania following the Baltic country’s decision to bar Moscow from shipping certain goods by rail to its Kaliningrad exclave. The small Russian region, about 800 miles west of Moscow, is sandwiched between Lithuania to its north and east and Poland to its south and is the headquarters of the Russian navy’s Baltic Fleet. On Tuesday a top Russian security official said that the move by Vilnius will result in a response that will have a “significant negative impact” on the Lithuanian people.
The ban on goods subject to European Union sanctions was announced by Lithuanian authorities earlier this month and prompted a flurry of angry retorts from Moscow, with the Kremlin denouncing the move as unprecedented and unlawful.
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