{"id":167763,"date":"2025-12-11T18:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167763\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"kyiv-backs-lithuania-in-its-standoff-with-minsk","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167763\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv backs Lithuania in its standoff with Minsk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December<\/strong><strong> 11,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong> The Ukrainian foreign ministry has issued a statement to express support for Lithuania\u2019s response to incursions by balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes from Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe insist on the need to step up pressure on those who participate in aggression against Ukraine and destabilize the European continent, including by the imposition of new and additional individual and sectoral sanctions on Belarus and its individuals and legal entities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement comes hours after Vilnius said it may consider national sanctions against Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/telebashnia_vilnius_flag_litvy_pozirk_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/telebashnia_vilnius_flag_litvy_pozirk_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/telebashnia_vilnius_flag_litvy_pozirk_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/telebashnia_vilnius_flag_litvy_pozirk_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/telebashnia_vilnius_flag_litvy_pozirk_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/telebashnia_vilnius_flag_litvy_pozirk_1128x752.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Vilnius may consider national sanctions, closure of the border with Belarus<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">December 11,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginien\u0117 told LRT that Vilnius may consider national sanctions and the closure of the country\u2019s border with Belarus over incursions by cigarette-smuggling balloons. She noted that the number of incursions had fallen sharply when Lithuania &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/167743\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read <\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 11,&nbsp;Pozirk. The Ukrainian foreign ministry has issued a statement to express support for Lithuania\u2019s response to incursions by balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes from Belarus. \u201cWe insist on the need to step up pressure on those who participate in aggression against Ukraine and destabilize the European continent, including by the imposition of new and additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":82957,"template":"","rubric":[21,16,30],"class_list":["post-167763","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-economy","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kyiv backs Lithuania in its standoff with Minsk | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 11,&nbsp;Pozirk. 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