the Kremlin denounces a blockade and threatens Lithuania with reprisals

In duplex from Moscow, journalist Luc Lacroix explains that the Russian authorities are reporting restrictions on 40% to 50% of their supplies to Kaliningrad. For Russia, this would be an illegal decision “because it would run counter to an agreement between Russia and the European Union dating from 2002“, he says. Moscow has already prepared its response, since the secretary of the Russian Security Council has been dispatched to the scene. “He brandishes the threat of retaliatory measures“, continues Luc Lacroix.

Sanctions that could have consequences “negative for the people of Lithuania“, in the words of the secretary, without detailing further what measures were envisaged.”Some pro-Kremlin commentators go so far as to call for a release by force. Russian diplomacy demands an immediate release“, explains the journalist. A situation which comes to crystallize the tensions between Russians and Europeans, while looming Thursday, June 23 a summit in Brussels which must launch the process of accession of Ukraine to the European Union.