{"id":504603,"date":"2025-12-22T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=504603"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:34:28","slug":"lithuanian-defence-minister-suggests-using-funds-from-belarusian-potash-transit-to-aid-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-defence-minister-suggests-using-funds-from-belarusian-potash-transit-to-aid-ukraine","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Defence Minister Suggests Using Funds From Belarusian Potash Transit to Aid Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian Defence Minister <strong>Robertas Kaunas<\/strong>\u00a0has proposed an unconventional idea for how to use revenues from the transit of Belarusian potash fertilisers, should Vilnius ultimately be forced to resume it.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIf we were, so to speak, \u2018forced\u2019 to make such a choice, then it would be necessary to hold a discussion. And if we are to discuss it, we need to have options,\u201d<\/i> LRT quoted him as saying, citing BNS.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe Port of Klaip\u0117da is the most favourable for exports, and here we return to the issue of 300 million. Why not direct these 300 million to Ukraine as additional support? In this way, we would be killing two birds with one stone. But for now, this is only an interpretation,\u201d<\/i> he added.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the United States recently suspended sanctions against Belarus\u2019s potash industry. The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a licence allowing transactions with Belaruskali, the Belarusian Potash Company and their subsidiaries.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the European Union has not lifted its sanctions on Belarusian potash, and its transit through the EU remains banned. Nevertheless, the US decision has sparked debate about a possible resumption of transit through Lithuania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas\u00a0has proposed an unconventional idea for how to use revenues from the transit of Belarusian potash fertilisers, should Vilnius ultimately be forced to resume it. \u201cIf we were, so to speak, \u2018forced\u2019 to make such a choice, then it would be necessary to hold a discussion. And if we are to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":502883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69493ad9e01f1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Defence Minister Suggests Using Funds From Belarusian Potash Transit to Aid Ukraine"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504603","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=504603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}