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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Andrius Sytas

Lithuania to keep Kaliningrad trade restrictions while working out new rules

FILE PHOTO: Lithuania's Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte speaks under the heading "Standing up to Authoritarianism – View from Lithuania" during Copenhagen Democracy Summit in the Skuespilhuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 10, 2022. Ritzau Scanpix/Philip Davali via REUTERS

European Union member Lithuania will keep restrictions on trade flows to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad while it works out new rules, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said on Thursday.

The European Commission said on Wednesday that sanctioned Russian goods could transit through the bloc's territory by rail to the enclave, after tensions between Moscow, Brussels and Lithuania escalated.

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