The head of the Lithuanian government, Ingrida Simonyte, said at a press conference in Kiev that the Baltic Republic plans to allocate an additional 2 million euros to Ukraine to ensure grain supplies. TASS.
“Lithuania joined this initiative last year and today we are allocating an additional 2 million euros and it will go to Ukraine by the end of this year,” he said.
The Prime Minister added that research for alternative routes and new export corridors continues. Also, according to him, Lithuania is ready to increase the transit capabilities of ports for Ukrainian exports in order to create another corridor through the Baltic Sea for the export of Ukrainian products.
Before that, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal statedUkraine needs transit routes to export agricultural products, so Kiev needs to “build bridges, not walls” on its western border.
EU leadership lifted the ban On September 15, on grain imports from Ukraine, he demanded that Kiev impose controls on the export of agricultural products. Poland, Hungary and some other states did not agree with the European Commission’s decision and unilaterally elongated An embargo was imposed on grain supplies from Ukraine.
Previously Poland and Ukraine To agree Transfer of control of Ukrainian grain to Lithuania.