On Monday, Lithuania downgraded its diplomatic ties with Russia and ordered the ambassador to leave the country.
Highlights
- Lithuania downgrades diplomatic ties with Russia and orders ambassador to leave country.
- Russian consulate in Klaipėda ordered to close, while Lithuania’s current ambassador to Moscow will also return to the country.
- Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said: “The brutality of the Russian occupation forces has gone beyond any norms of the civilised world” Lithuania also ordered the Lithuanian ambassador to Ukraine to return to Kyiv, while the ambassador to Russia is returning to Ukraine.
- The country’s ambassador to the Russian Federation will also be forced to leave the country, Foreign Minister Landsenbergis said.
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