{"id":575064,"date":"2026-09-09T17:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=575064"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:14:11","slug":"sinkevicius-lithuania-does-not-plan-to-halt-bus-services-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/sinkevicius-lithuania-does-not-plan-to-halt-bus-services-with-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Sinkevi\u010dius: Lithuania Does Not Plan To Halt Bus Services With Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania currently has no plans to ban passenger bus services to Belarus and Russia, the country\u2019s Prime Minister <strong>Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>Sinkevi\u010dius noted that he recently met with the prime ministers of Latvia and Estonia but had not heard any proposals from them to ban passenger bus services to Belarus and Russia.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have the possibility and a plan to restrict or even completely close the border, but this should be done not for political reasons, but taking the security context into account,\u201d<\/em> LRT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/ru\/novosti\/17\/3047352\/prem-er-litvy-ne-vidit-osnovanii-dlia-zapreta-avtobusnykh-reisov-v-belarus\">quoted<\/a> Sinkevi\u010dius as saying.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Lithuanian prime minister, the government has not received recommendations from military intelligence to close the border or halt bus services.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs of today, we have no such instructions from military intelligence. Relations with Belarusians are certainly tense because of various provocations and instrumentalized migration, but I do not think we should resolve these issues for political reasons at this time,\u201d<\/em> Sinkevi\u010dius stressed.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that Latvia plans to end passenger bus services with Belarus and Russia starting in 2027. Lithuanian conservative Seimas member <strong>Arvydas Anu\u0161auskas<\/strong> called on the Lithuanian government to follow Latvia\u2019s example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania currently has no plans to ban passenger bus services to Belarus and Russia, the country\u2019s Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius said. Sinkevi\u010dius noted that he recently met with the prime ministers of Latvia and Estonia but had not heard any proposals from them to ban passenger bus services to Belarus and Russia. \u201cWe have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":575063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa193e7d5b92.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Sinkevi\u010dius: Lithuania Does Not Plan To Halt Bus Services With Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575064","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=575064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}