The US declared it ‘stands by Lithuania’ after Russia cautioned Lithuania about limitations placed on rail trade to Kaliningrad.
Ned Price, a spokesperson for the State Department, said: ‘Specifically, our commitment to NATO’s Article Five the notion that an assault on one would constitute an attack on all that commitment on the side of the United States is ironclad.
Russia has warned that Lithuania’s plan to restrict train travel will have catastrophic implications, calling it a ‘hostile step.’ Between Lithuania and Poland, on the Baltic Sea, is the Russian outpost of Kaliningrad.
While stating that it does not want to support ‘Russian saber-rattling or Russian bluster and don’t even want to give it extra publicity,’ the US supported Lithuania’s action due to its ‘unprecedented economic actions.’
Markus Ederer was called into the foreign ministry by Putin’s administration. Lithuania had prohibited the transport of commodities to the enclave while citing EU sanctions. Lithuania is a member of the EU and NATO.
Ingrida Simonyte, the prime minister of Lithuania, said it was amusing to hear talk about supposed international treaty violations from a government that she believes has broken every single treaty.
Lithuania is carrying out EU sanctions, the prime minister of Lithuania said, stressing that there is no siege of Kaliningrad.
The ‘quick resumption of normal Kaliningrad transit,’ however, was what Russia insisted upon.
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