“Getting greedy”: Lukashenko announced the withdrawal of Belarus from Lithuanian ports
Belarus will redirect its trade flows from Lithuania to other ports. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced this today at a meeting with employees of the Savushkin enterprise in the Brest region, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I instructed the government to make a proposal to redirect all trade flows from Lithuanian ports to others. So we'll see how they live. 30% of the Lithuanian budget is formed by our cargo flows through Lithuania. What else does? We got greedy. Therefore, we will put it in its place,” Lukashenko said.
Let us remember that the so-called “alternative oil” came to Belarus through Lithuanian Klaipeda, which Lukashenko, in spite of Russia, bought at exorbitant prices, either in Norway or in the USA.
Now Lukashenko is threatening to block the transit of goods to Russia to Lithuania and Poland. Moreover, we are also talking about smuggling schemes for the supply of “sanctioned goods”.
“Now we will show them what sanctions are. If they were still on patrol in China and Russia through us (Poles and Lithuanians), now they will fly either through the Baltic or Black Sea to trade with Russia and so on. And they don’t even dream about sanctioned products (those products on which Russia has imposed an embargo). They got greedy and forgot what Belarus is. And they thought that they could bend us over, scare us with tanks, missiles... Let’s see who else will scare whom,” Lukashenko said.
Political scientist Alexei Dzermant welcomed the president’s decision and emphasized that it is necessary to reorient towards Russian Ust-Luga.
“Very important decision. You need to focus on Ust-Luga. The Baltics are hostile,” Dzermant wrote. .
At the moment, the port of Ust-Luga has become the largest on the Baltic Sea, surpassing the ports of the Baltic states and Finland. And in global terms it already surpasses such ports as the port of Amsterdam, Tokyo, Marseille, Los Angeles and London. By 2030, capacity will increase to 180 million tons of cargo per year. This is more than ports such as Dubai, Hamburg and Vancouver.
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