{"id":603699,"date":"2026-11-14T18:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=603699"},"modified":"2026-11-14T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T16:25:15","slug":"lithuania-plans-to-extend-heightened-border-controls-with-kaliningrad-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuania-plans-to-extend-heightened-border-controls-with-kaliningrad-region","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Plans To Extend Heightened Border Controls With Kaliningrad Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania plans to extend heightened controls on its border with Russia\u2019s Kaliningrad region until the end of November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/lithuania\/premer-litvy-usilennyy-kontrol-na-granice-s-kaliningradom-planiruyut-prodlit-do-konca-noyabrya-120334102\">Elta reports<\/a>. A final decision will be made based on recommendations from the military, Lithuanian Prime Minister <b>Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius<\/b> said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the possibility of extending the heightened controls has already been discussed with Defence Minister <b>Robertas Kaunas<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThere have been discussions with Lithuania\u2019s defence minister. The minister will apparently rely on proposals from the army. The issue was extending the controls until the end of November, but the defence minister can probably comment on whether this is necessary. The decision itself will depend not on political will but on the military council,\u201d<\/i> Sinkevi\u010dius said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Lithuanian border guards are <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-troops-to-remain-on-border-with-kaliningrad-region-until-mid-november\">receiving assistance from military personnel<\/a> along the border with the Kaliningrad region. The defence minister previously said that the authorities were considering extending the army\u2019s involvement in border protection.<\/p>\n<p>Heightened controls along this section of the border were introduced in October and subsequently extended until mid-November. As Lithuanian Interior Minister <b>Martynas Katelynas<\/b> previously explained, the decision was <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuania-strengthens-border-with-kaliningrad-region-after-incident-on-latvia-belarus-border-and-reports-of-mobilization-in-russia\">partly linked to an incident on the Latvia-Belarus border<\/a>, where a group of migrants accompanied by armed individuals attempted to cross the border illegally. In addition, increased border security is being considered as a preventive measure amid concerns about possible mobilisation in Russia following the elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lithuania\u2019s Interior Ministry, up to 100 military personnel are assisting border guards in protecting the border with the Kaliningrad region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania plans to extend heightened controls on its border with Russia\u2019s Kaliningrad region until the end of November, Elta reports. A final decision will be made based on recommendations from the military, Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius said. According to him, the possibility of extending the heightened controls has already been discussed with Defence Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":555721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af88b718b7a3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuania Plans To Extend Heightened Border Controls With Kaliningrad Region"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603699","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=603699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603700,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603699\/revisions\/603700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}