Vilnius Is Ready To Raise Rates
- 10.11.2025, 10:13
Lithuania is ready to take decisive steps against Lukashenko's regime.
The Lithuanian authorities, having failed to wait for a positive decision from Minsk on the trucks detained on the other side of the border, are ready to up the ante in the exchange of blows. Vilnius is considering the possibility of complete blockade of railroad communication from the territory of Belarus, writes "Belarusians and the market".
"A long-term restriction on the transportation of Belarusian goods by rail is also possible, but it is not being discussed at the moment, but as the situation worsens further, it is not ruled out," Ignas Dobrovolskas, an adviser to Lithuania's prime minister, told LRT over the weekend.
It is unclear from these words whether cargo and passenger transit to the Kaliningrad region would fall under this possible ban. But if it does, it will seriously raise the degree of tension in the region. And not only in relations between Moscow and Minsk and Lithuania. But also possibly - Moscow and Minsk, if the decisions on weather probes and blocked trucks were not coordinated with the ally.
This hint about the railroad was made against the background of Minsk's ban on the movement of trucks registered in Lithuania and Poland across the country. It was introduced on October 31 as a response to Lithuania's closure of all automobile checkpoints on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. In turn, Vilnius was forced to take this step by the increasing frequency of crossing the airspace by smuggled weather probes, in which it saw a "hybrid attack.
According to the Lithuanian side, about 1,000 Lithuanian trucks and semi-trailers are stuck in Belarus because of the ban, 400 of which - at the border crossing Shalchininkai.
"Lithuania encourages its carriers to collect information about the losses incurred, which, after assessing the legal possibilities, can be recovered from Belarus or its assets," Ignas Dobrovolskas told about another measure to influence the Belarusian side.