There is no question of a blockade of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and the EU say. Kaliningrad is wedged between Poland and Lithuania and is normally supplied by rail from Belarus and Lithuania.
Last weekend, Lithuania decided that certain Russian goods can no longer be transported via the rail route. The background to the Lithuanian decision is the sanctions list that has been agreed within the EU. According to Lithuania, the decision is a consequence of the implementation of those sanctions.
Other goods will soon be added to the list of goods banned from the Lithuanian track. In July the transport of concrete and alcohol will come to an end, in August it will be the turn of coal and from December also oil. According to the governor of the region, 50 percent of the goods Kaliningrad normally receives is by rail.
The railway route from Russia to the Kaliningrad exclave:
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