Lithuania failed to prepare response to Russia's transit threats – EU commissioner

Giedrius Gaidamavičius, BNS

Jun 22, 2022

Lithuania has failed to properly prepare its strategic communication to respond to Russia’s threats over the restriction of sanctioned goods’ transit to Kaliningrad, Lithuania’s European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius has said. (Russian transit train (associative image))

Russia’s rhetoric could have been foreseen as transit to Kaliningrad is a sensitive issue for Moscow and Lithuania is aware of that, according to Sinkevičius.