Lithuania: first Russian train with sanctioned goods reaches border

Freight traffic between mainland Russia and the exclave of Kaliningrad, which bordered Lithuania, resumed this week, as the first train was undergoing checks on July 26. “Yesterday, the first train set to cross the territory of Lithuania arrived,” Kotryna Dzikaraite, a spokeswoman for Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), said. A spokeswoman for the Customs Department…

Ukraine: country fully supplied with sugar

In the current 2021-2022 financial year (September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2022), Ukraine produced 1,450,000 tons of sugar, or 130.5% of the production of the previous financial year. Sugar was produced by 33 factories. According to the sugar supply and demand balance calculated by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, the…