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BY TYLER DURDEN SATURDAY, JUN 25, 2022 – 04:00 AM
Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog,
The Ukraine conflict is taking a toll on the Euro-zone and it could result in finally pushing it over the edge. Everything flowing from Russia’s incursion poses a big negative for the region which is already struggling. When you couple soaring energy prices with stagnate growth and a growing trade balance with China you have the recipe for disaster. This is also apparent on the inflation front.
Lithuania will maintain the ban on the transit of sanctioned goods between Kaliningrad Region and mainland Russia, President Gitanas Nauseda has said.
“It is absolutely clear that Lithuania must and will implement EU sanctions,” Nauseda wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday.
“Lithuania must and will maintain control over the goods passing through its territory, and there cannot be any ‘corridors’, nor can there be any appeasement of Russia in response to the Kremlin’s threats. I have made clear to the president of the European Commission how Lithuania sees the situation.”
Kaliningrad Region is a small Russian exclave nestled between Lithuania and Poland. A week ago, Lithuania’s national rail operator suspended the transit of sanctions goods between Kaliningrad and the rest of Russia, citing instructions from Brussels.
Since the EU closed its airspace to Russian planes in February, the only option for the authorities in Kaliningrad now is to ferry goods to and from mainland Russia via the Baltic Sea.
The EU imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow in response to the military campaign in Ukraine launched in late February.
Nauseda reiterated on Saturday that Vilnius was acting in accordance with the EU’s fourth package of restrictions, which was adopted “with Lithuania’s active participation.”
The EU earlier backed Lithuania in its move to partially ban the transit of Russian goods.
Russia has argued that the disruption of transit is illegal under international law and threatened to retaliate.
The Times reported on Thursday that Italy and several other European governments asked the European Commission to defuse the crisis.
Petras Austrevicius, a European Parliament member from Lithuania, said on Friday that an unnamed EU member state proposed that the Commission allow Russia-to-Russia transit of sanctioned goods. Austrevicius urged Brussels not to “succumb to pressure from the aggressor and create extraterritorial exemptions and concessions.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov expressed hope that the decision to partially ban the transit could be reversed. “Let’s hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Which is what we do all the time,” he told reporters on Friday.
Jun 25, 2022
Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say
As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize eastern Ukraine, the nation’s ability to resist the onslaught depends more than ever on help from the United States and its allies — including a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training, according to U.S. and European officials.
Much of this work happens outside Ukraine, at bases in Germany, France and Britain, for example. But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the vast amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials.
At the same time, a few dozen commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France…
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April M. Short 9th June 2022, 18:31 GMT+10
Ukr forces & “murder tourists” (foreign mercs) abandon Severodonetsk industrial zone, city is 100% under Russ/Lugansk control; Ukr propaganda shifts hard to “we never needed that place, it was just a sneaky distraction for dumb Russ”; Noose tightens on Ukr in Lisichansk city, birthplace of 2014 Lugansk “Russian Spring”; Ukr withdrawal from Lisichansk west to Seversk and Slaviansk under way, by some accounts; *****NO SIGN OF LINDSAY GRAHAM… SOMEONE DO A WELLNESS CHECK???*****; To prove it is still a drunken gas station and not a real country, Russia launches ~40 cruise missiles overnight June 24-25, hitting as far as Lvov; Russia has massively stepped up its intel/surveillance—has been striking Ukr regional senior command centers & foreign arms marshalling points w/ increasing frequency, has likely already damaged or destroyed *most* U.S. M-777 cannon sent to Ukr; fate of Ukr force in Gorskoe-Zolotoe cauldron unclear, appears most attempting to exfiltrate on foot, incl. thru mine fields, many in civilian clothes—Russ victory here may be a starving bug hunt rather than “clean” mass surrender, nonetheless, many trophies taken incl. hundreds of U.S./Swedish AT-4 bazookas, millions of $ of high-end combat/trauma medical gear, piles of abandoned body armor; Ukr forces in/near Kharkov hard-pressed as Russia counter-advances near city, NOW HIDING IN HOSPITALS TO AVOID AIR/MISSILE STRIKES, *****PREPARE FOR MEDIA SH*TSTORM RE POSSIBLE RUSSIAN STRIKE ON HOSPITAL IN THIS AREA*****
Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko has condemned Lithuania’s move to block all ground communications between Russia and its exclave of Kaliningrad, calling it a “de facto declaration of war”.
“Recently, there has been increasingly more information emerging about [Lithuania’s] plan to stop transit from Russia through Belarus to Kaliningrad. It’s like declaring some kind of war. This is unacceptable in today’s environment,” Lukashenko said.
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