One of President Vladimir Putin's top allies has warned Lithuania that Russia would respond to a halt in the transit of EU-sanctioned goods to the exclave of Kaliningrad.
The Secretary of Russia's Security Council, said Lithuania's "hostile" actions showed that Russia could not trust the West
Kaliningrad, capital of East Prussia, was captured from Nazi Germany by the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union after World War TwoNikolai Patrushev, a former KGB spy who is now the secretary of Russia's Security Council, added it would respond in such a way that the citizens of the NATO and European Union member would feel the pain.by the EU through its territory to and from the exclave, citing EU sanction rules.
"Appropriate measures are being worked out in an interdepartmental format and will be taken in the near future.
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