{"id":8302,"date":"2022-07-07T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:22:02","slug":"russias-territory-in-europe-is-the-latest-source-of-ukraine-war-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8302","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s territory in Europe is the latest source of Ukraine war tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“What set off the spat this time was Lithuania\u2019s enforcement of EU sanctions against Russia<\/a> after a months-long transition period<\/a>. Because Kaliningrad isn\u2019t directly connected to the rest ofRussia, it gets most of its supplies by land routes or by sea. Lithuania\u2019s state rail operator announced last week that it would no longer allow the transit of sanctioned goods \u2014 like steel products and construction materials <\/a>\u2014 through Lithuania to Kaliningrad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia accused Lithuania of staging a blockade, with Russia\u2019s foreign ministry warning of \u201cpractical\u201d<\/a> retaliation. \u201cBoth Lithuania and the EU have been notified through their diplomatic missions in Moscow that such actions are inadmissible and that the steps taken should be overturned and the situation put back on the legal, legitimate track,\u201d Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday, according to state-run media<\/a>. \u201cIf this fails to be done, then, of course, retaliatory moves will be inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lithuania has said this is not a blockade, and they are just doing additional checks and following the sanctions rules that all EU states agreed on. \u201cFirst, any talk of a blockade of Kaliningrad is a lie. Second, Lithuania is complying with the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia for its aggression and war against Ukraine,\u201d said Lithuania Prime Minister Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117<\/a>. Only sanctioned items are targeted; food and medicine can still move, and passenger travel continues. Plus, Kaliningrad can get goods from Russia by sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Union, meanwhile, has tried to de-escalate and is working on guidelines to implement checks \u201cin a clever and smart way,\u201d said Josep Borrell, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief. \u201c[There are] two objectives: to prevent circumvention of the sanctions; and not to block the traffic. Both things should be possible, and we are working on that,\u201d Borrell said<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/6\/23\/23179942\/russian-kaliningrad-europe-ukraine-war-tension<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“What set off the spat this time was Lithuania\u2019s enforcement of EU sanctions against Russia after a months-long transition period. Because Kaliningrad isn\u2019t directly connected to the rest of Russia, it gets most of its supplies by land routes or by sea. Lithuania\u2019s state rail operator announced last week that it would no longer allow the transit of sanctioned goods \u2014 like steel products and construction materials \u2014 through Lithuania to Kaliningrad.<\/p>\n

Russia accused Lithuania of staging a blockade, with Russia\u2019s foreign ministry warning of \u201cpractical\u201d retaliation. \u201cBoth Lithuania and the EU have been notified through their diplomatic missions in Moscow that such actions are inadmissible and that the steps taken should be overturned and the situation put back on the legal, legitimate track,\u201d Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday, according to state-run media. \u201cIf this fails to be done, then, of course, retaliatory moves will be inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lithuania has said this is not a blockade, and they are just doing additional checks and following the sanctions rules that all EU states agreed on. \u201cFirst, any talk of a blockade of Kaliningrad is a lie. Second, Lithuania is complying with the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia for its aggression and war against Ukraine,\u201d said Lithuania Prime Minister Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117. Only sanctioned items are targeted; food and medicine can still move, and passenger travel continues. Plus, Kaliningrad can get goods from Russia by sea.<\/p>\n

The European Union, meanwhile, has tried to de-escalate and is working on guidelines to implement checks \u201cin a clever and smart way,\u201d said Josep Borrell, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief. \u201c[There are] two objectives: to prevent circumvention of the sanctions; and not to block the traffic. Both things should be possible, and we are working on that,\u201d Borrell said.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,924,728,923,1545,1676,1525,315,1001,311,158],"class_list":["post-8302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-invasion","tag-kaliningrad","tag-lithuania","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}