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Russia’s security chief on Tuesday said Moscow will respond to Lithuania’s decision to bar rail transit of goods subject to European Union sanctions from Russia to a Russian Baltic Sea exclave

Lithuania has banned the transit of goods sanctioned by the EU to Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The head of Russia’s Security Council Nikolay Patrushev said that Moscow’s retaliation to Lithuania’s transport “blockade” of Russia’s Kaliningrad Region will seriously affect Lithuanian citizens.

Row escalates over Vilnius’s refusal to allow steel and iron ore to cross Russian exclave of Kaliningrad

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The latest diplomatic crisis is over the Kaliningrad enclave, a port and surrounding countryside on the Baltic Sea that is home to nearly a million Russians, connected to the rest of Russia by a rail link through EU- and NATO-member Lithuania.

Lithuanian officials said they imposed the restrictions beginning on June 20 in an effort to shore up punitive measures that followed Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine

Lithuania says it is simply adhering to EU-wide sanctions on Moscow but Russia countered, accusing Brussels of “escalation”.

Lithuanias decision to bar Moscow from shipping certain goods by rail to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad will result in a response that will have a "significant negative impact" on the Lithuanian people, a top Russian security official said Tuesday.