>>16469497 PB: Did Lithuania Light the Fuse on World War III?
Think an anon posted this earlier but just in case:
Anyone following Gonzalo Lira or The Duran probably knows his story. Lives in Ukraine, arrested by Ukrainian secret police but eventually released although they kept all his accounts and channels. This is another he has started. First few minutes are an update on Ukraine then around 4 minutes starts on the Lithuanian piece. 1 ~ 14 minutes.
According to an article in Al Jazeera this is new starting today (Saturday):
"Lithuanian authorities have banned the transit through their territory of goods to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad that are subject to European Union sanctions, according to the national rail service.
The enclave – home to the Russian Baltic Fleet and a deployment location for Moscow’s nuclear-capable Iskander missiles – is sandwiched on the Baltic coast between Lithuania and Poland, both NATO members, and has no land border with Russia.
The transit ban took effect on Saturday, according to the cargo arm of Lithuania’s state rail service in a letter to clients. Following “clarification” from the European Commission on the mechanism for applying the sanctions, the transit ban was implemented, according to the letter.
News of the impending ban came on Friday in a video message posted by Kaliningrad’s governor Anton Alikhanov.
Alikhanov said the ban would cover between 40 and 50 percent of the items that Kaliningrad imports from and exports to Russia through Lithuania as the EU sanctions list notably includes coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology.
“We consider this to be a most serious violation … of the right to free transit into and out of Kaliningrad region,” he said in an online video posting, adding that authorities would press to have the measures lifted."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/18/lithuania-enforces-eu-sanctions-on-goods-to-russias-kaliningrad