Europe Moves to Defuse Tension With Moscow Over Russian Exclave Kaliningrad

The European Union is making an attempt to defuse tensions with Moscow after Lithuania invoked Western sanctions to block some Russian items from coming into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Some EU capitals, together with Germany, are involved that Lithuania’s enforcement of the sanctions might set off a harmful escalation from the Kremlin, partially as a result of it targets commerce between two areas of Russia reasonably than Russian imports and exports, in accordance to European officers.