Loading road trains. File photoKALININGRAD, Apr 20 The authorities of the Kaliningrad region are asking not to restrict European road transport in response to EU sanctions, since this is now the only opportunity for the region to receive some goods, Governor Anton Alikhanov told RIA Novosti.»Frankly speaking , I, as the governor of the Kaliningrad region, can say that I would ask you to take into account that we should not be limited in the ability to import something by European carriers,» Alikhanov said in an interview with RIA Novosti. «You see, the fact is that they did not limit themselves We have not introduced any specific response measures,» Alikhanov said, answering the question of whether the situation with sanctions had somehow affected European carriers, which were also involved in transit to Kaliningrad. The head of the region noted that for the Kaliningrad region now it is » the only way to get some goods.» «And we, of course, would really not like restrictions on road transport, because we have quite a lot of things in winters from Europe. We need such a possibility,” Alikhanov emphasized. As part of the fifth package of sanctions, the EU banned transportation on its territory by road transport operators from the Russian Federation and Belarus, excluding medical and food products. Transit to Kaliningrad was not prohibited.
In Kaliningrad they spoke about the situation with transit through Lithuania
