Moscow to impose sanctions on the Baltic states
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow was considering imposing economic and transit sanctions on Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in response to their ‘hostile actions’.
According to her, the Russian Federation will take measures mainly in the economic and transit spheres. Ms Zakharova stressed that ‘due to the hostile actions of the Baltic capitals - Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn - all inter-state, inter-departmental, regional and sectoral ties with Russia have been severed’.
She also said that Moscow would continue to use diplomatic measures to influence the Baltic states, but that it considered the severing of diplomatic relations with these states to be ‘undesirable’.
‘The end of diplomatic missions in this situation would mean that our country's citizens living in the Baltic States and hundreds of thousands of compatriots would be left alone to face arbitrary police action’, added Ms Zakharova.
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