Lithuania proposed to the EU to ban the export of buttons and sewing needles to Russia

The Lithuanian authorities, as part of the 12th package of anti-Russian sanctions of the European Union, took the initiative to ban the export of buttons, knitting needles and sewing needles to Russia, reported EUobserver on Saturday 21 October, with a link to the document.

Journalists note that Vilnius, on dozens of pages, substantiated in detail recommendations regarding the “destruction of Russian industrial capacities.” The country’s authorities are also confident that the new package of anti-Russian sanctions should contain a ban on the supply of central heating radiators with non-electric heating and nails to Russia.

According to a source in European diplomatic circles, Brussels still prefers to believe in the myth that European restrictions are harmful to Russia.

Earlier, a columnist for the South China Morning Post noted that anti-Russian sanctions hit Europe the hardest and, first of all, Germany. He pointed out that Berlin was pathologically uninterested in who might be behind the sabotage of the Nord Streams, the country’s key strategic infrastructure: Germany only blindly believed the statements of American intelligence that everything was done by Ukrainian saboteurs.