“We went to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry today, we put a lot of questions before them,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Ryabokon noted that Russian diplomats raised the topic of "railroad conventions" and told the Lithuanian side "that this is not the way to do it, that you need to give a 24-hour warning."
“We were simply read from a piece of paper that “Lithuania, they say, has nothing to do with it, it’s all the European Union, and what we do, we just do what the European Union tells us,” he said.
On June 17, Lithuanian Railways notified the Kaliningrad Railway of the termination of the transit of a number of sanctioned goods.
On June 20, the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded that Lithuania immediately lift the restrictions imposed on the rail transit of part of the cargo, adding that otherwise the Russian side reserves the right to act to protect its national interests.
The Federation Council of Russia noted that by its decision, Lithuania violates a number of international legal acts that also affect the obligations of the European Union.