{"id":495294,"date":"2025-11-06T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=495294"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:21:38","slug":"lithuania-plans-to-let-trucks-stranded-in-belarus-cross-via-salcininkai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuania-plans-to-let-trucks-stranded-in-belarus-cross-via-salcininkai","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Plans to Let Trucks Stranded in Belarus Cross via \u0160al\u010dininkai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania plans to allow around 500 trucks and trailers stranded in Belarus to cross through the \u0160al\u010dininkai checkpoint, Interior Minister <strong>Vladislav Kondratovi\u010d<\/strong>\u00a0said on Ziniu radijas radio, according to LRT.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cA large group is at the \u0160al\u010dininkai checkpoint, on the Belarusian side in Benyakoni. We expect that these vehicles will be able to start moving through this crossing because they cannot go anywhere else. The drivers and trailers are there as well,\u201d<\/i> Kondratovich said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Lithuania will try to reach an agreement with the Belarusian side on the passage of vehicles located in the neutral zone.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAt the technical level, we will likely pass a message through our border guards about the possibility of using \u0160al\u010dininkai specifically for this transport. We\u2019ll see how Belarus responds. If we can agree that only those vehicles physically located in the neutral zone near the border will be allowed to pass, then we can make progress\u2014and take it from there,\u201d<\/i> the interior minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Lithuanian Prime Minister <b>Inga Ruginen\u0117<\/b> said that Vilnius would contact the Belarusian authorities to discuss the return of trucks stranded in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania closed its border crossings with Belarus until November 30 in response to the intrusion of meteorological probes from Belarus that disrupted airport operations. Only certain categories of travelers are allowed to cross via the Medininkai checkpoint. In turn, the Belarusian government has banned trucks with Lithuanian registration from leaving the country through Poland and Latvia. According to the Belarusian State Customs Committee, about 5,000 Lithuanian trucks and trailers remain blocked in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania plans to allow around 500 trucks and trailers stranded in Belarus to cross through the \u0160al\u010dininkai checkpoint, Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovi\u010d\u00a0said on Ziniu radijas radio, according to LRT. \u201cA large group is at the \u0160al\u010dininkai checkpoint, on the Belarusian side in Benyakoni. We expect that these vehicles will be able to start moving through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":495293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/690c92d734da6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuania Plans to Let Trucks Stranded in Belarus Cross via \u0160al\u010dininkai"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}