The capital of Lithuania has started dimming or, in some places, even switching off street and public space lights due to a drastic rise in electricity prices. According to Andrius Deimantas, director of the municipal company Vilniaus Apsvietimas (Vilnius Lighting), the authorities have already reduced lighting time, while lighting intensity has been cut down by…
The construction of a fence along Lithuania’s border with Belarus was completed at the end of last week, EPSO-G, the state-owned energy group responsible for the project, reported on August 29. The barrier, consisting of a fence and razor wire, was installed in sections stretching approximately 502 kilometers. “The team of contractors mobilised by EPSO-G…
Vilnius authorities have warned of a series of explosions that will be used to demolish the remains of an unfinished stadium near the Akropolis shopping mall. The site is to be cleared for the construction of the National Stadium. According to Vilnius Deputy Mayor Valdas Benkunskas, the use of explosives will allow the company Vilniaus…
Lithuania reached a deal with a Polish company to purchase the Warmate loitering munition system. The so-called kamikaze drones will be handed over to Ukraine, Lithuania’s Ministry of Defence says. The agreement was concluded between Vice Minister of Defence Vilius Semeska and Poland’s WB Group in Warsaw. The Defence Ministry will broker the drone purchase…
A large fire broke out on August 25 night at a waste-recycling plant in Kaunas. Firefighters were working overnight to contain the fire and prosecutors launched an investigation into its causes and the extent of the damage. The fire broke out at the site of the waste management company Zalvaris in Palemono Street at around…
Payments for the transit of sanctioned goods between mainland Russia and its Kaliningrad exclave through Lithuania should continue, Transport Minister Marius Skuodis has said, but admitted that there might be “challenges”. The last Lithuanian bank processing transactions from Russia and Belarus said it would stop doing it as of September, causing concern that this would…
Lithuanian Customs is stepping up checks to monitor the execution of EU sanctions on Russia and Belarus. Shipments whose senders, receivers, carriers or customs intermediaries have already tried to circumvent the sanctions will be deemed high-risk and subjected to extra checks, the Customs Department said on August 25. “We see that the number of attempts…