{"id":498685,"date":"2025-11-26T15:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=498685"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:41:10","slug":"lithuanian-pm-national-sanctions-against-belarus-would-be-a-last-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-pm-national-sanctions-against-belarus-would-be-a-last-resort","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian PM: National Sanctions Against Belarus Would Be a Last Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>While Lithuania\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is considering the possibility of introducing national sanctions against Belarus \u201cfor hybrid activity,\u201d the country\u2019s Prime Minister <b>Inga Ruginien\u0117<\/b> insists that this would be a last resort. LRT reported this, citing BNS.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We are keeping this as a last resort,&#8221;<\/i> the prime minister told journalists on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke following a statement by Foreign Minister <b>Ke\u0328stutis Budrys<\/b>, who said that since meteorological balloons from Belarus continue to enter the country and the Minsk regime is not releasing detained Lithuanian trucks, the possibility of adopting <i>&#8220;a law on national sanctions for hybrid activity carried out against Lithuania&#8221;<\/i> is being considered.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ruginien\u0117, various countermeasures against Belarus are currently being tightened.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Let us not forget: we opened the borders, but we can close them again. If the trucks are not released, if the goodwill we saw when closing the border does not return, we will take increasingly strict measures,&#8221;<\/i> she said.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that Lithuania closed its border with Belarus for a month due to the threat posed by meteorological balloons, but citing an improvement in the situation, it decided to reopen it ten days ahead of schedule. The Medininkai and \u0160al\u010dininkai border crossings resumed operations last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the border closure, Minsk banned Lithuanian trucks from entering Belarus until the border reopened. Despite the resumption of work at the two border crossings, Belarus is not allowing the trucks to return to Lithuania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Lithuania\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is considering the possibility of introducing national sanctions against Belarus \u201cfor hybrid activity,\u201d the country\u2019s Prime Minister Inga Ruginien\u0117 insists that this would be a last resort. LRT reported this, citing BNS. &#8220;We are keeping this as a last resort,&#8221; the prime minister told journalists on Wednesday. She spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":493499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/69271f9e61e41.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian PM: National Sanctions Against Belarus Would Be a Last Resort"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498685","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}