“We already have nine ships operating on the line, next month there will be two more, and in September we are waiting for General Chernyakhovsky, who will bring the figure to 12,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Alikhanov added that the authorities of the region will continue to develop the ferry service to ensure "complete independence from any transit through the territory of the Baltic States."

Earlier it became known that 60 wagons with cement arrived in Kaliningrad from Russia in transit through Lithuania.