View of Klaipeda Commercial Sea PortMOSCOW, Mar 2Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia can ban the entry of Russian ships into their ports without waiting for the decision of the European Union on this issue, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said. will not be needed. If there are big discussions because of it, then we, having agreed with our neighbors, as was the case with aviation, we will propose to make this decision faster. We agreed on it in principle,» Simonyte said at a press conference, which was broadcast on the LRT portal, in response to a question about the closure of Lithuanian ports for Russian ships.The British Ministry of Transport said that the country will be able to detain ships from RussiaKiev on Wednesday demanded a ban on maritime communication with the ports of the Russian Federation and the service of Russian ships in foreign ports. Ukraine sent almost 50 appeals to the leading maritime powers and associations of the world with information «about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the facts of its gross violation of international maritime law.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday morning, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
