Kaliningrad is on the center of a dispute between Russia and Lithuania

The highest of Russia’s security council threatened Lithuania with “serious” penalties on Tuesday over restrictions imposed on the rail transit of EU-sanctioned gadgets to Moscow’s exclave of Kaliningrad, a space bordering Lithuania and Poland.

“Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions,” Nikolai Patrushev acknowledged at a security meeting in Kaliningrad. He added that “appropriate measures” are throughout the works they often “will be taken in the near future.”

“Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania,” he acknowledged in suggestions reported on by Russian info firms.

Within the meantime, Moscow’s abroad ministry has summoned the EU ambassador to the Russian capital, Markus Ederer, over the “anti-Russian restrictions” on cargo transferring between Kaliningrad and mainland Russia.