that the problems are enough just look at the map, the kaliningrad region is a russian ex-clave that does not border with any of the other regions of the country and most of the goods are brought back and forth in transit via the lithuanian railway and the ban on the transit of half of this cargo traffic looks like an attempt to blockade the russian transport a region with a population of more than a million people, especially considering that the list of prohibited, for example, has already included such important goods for the economy as wood, metal, almost everything building materials, and in the future , the transportation of coal, oil and oil products will be prohibited, of course, uh , the situation is not very pleasant. we have federations, uh, one way or another, fall into these restrictions. e, and we will need to reorient their transportation to e. this is the sea

route that connects the leningrad region and will now also connect st. petersburg with ports in kaliningrad region. this is baltiysk well , actually, the port itself, kaliningrad, the interest of all uh sanctions that are imposed on the russian economy is to deprive enterprises of the competitiveness and increase their cost. and these are the decisions that have been made recently. they are targeted. uh, just for this uh, the lengthening of logistics increases the cost of logistics. of course, this is also an increase in the cost of production for the end consumer, if the ban on transit through the summer continues, then the only option that remains for transportation with innovative cargo in the kaliningrad region. this is a sea route, how transport restrictions will affect the life of the russian slav. will there be enough port facilities to replace the railway, and if there is a threat of a shortage of goods in the very western region of the country?

the restrictions on transit through lithuania apply not only to rail, but also to road transport, and somehow suspiciously synchronously with the new bans , a huge traffic jam has formed on the russian-lithuanian border. there are about 150 of them here. there is an assumption that the current problems of russian truckers at the border. this is just an additional bonus from the lithuanian authorities to the ban on the transit of trucks standing in line do not carry goods from the sanctions list, at least their driver is very confident about this, and many heavy trucks generally go from kaliningrad empty

lithuanian customs officers actively deployed russian truckers. only the first two or three days after the appearance of new bans on transit now. there is simply no reason for this. you see here in general a lot of people are turned around. i don't know. now, on the last flight, i drove our four cars, where did they come from moscow to turn around with metal? and they went back to moscow to unload. the truck driver we spoke to at the russian-lithuanian border. at that time, they had been standing in line for about a day. and judging by the speed with which this traffic jam was moving, at least the same amount of truckers had to spend in it. well, it sort of melted away. here is one time. now. here again it is going on the sly, the campaign, the lithuanians deliberately slow down. it feels like them with x-rays it all started everyone in a row for x-rays. they drove here then it was here they stood there, as much as carrying a rut. that is, here, how they

work here, they don’t work here, you won’t understand that keep in mind the loads you see through everything. yes, in the car. it's not 5 minutes there, that is, each car, while back and forth. it's all worth it, in fact, there are no objective reasons for such queues to now appear on the russian-lithuanian border. just no number of trucks. those wishing to cross the checkpoint accurately you can’t name it beyond the limit, and most likely, this traffic jam appeared due to a sharp slowdown in the speed of the lithuanian customs and it’s not difficult to guess. why did this happen over the past day , 233 vehicles were allowed to enter the russian federation and 230 vehicles were allowed to exit. first, new shifts 12 are framed for entry and 13 for exit. in connection with the not very rhythmic fence , there is an accumulation of queues from the marginal side.

you see about 150 vehicles in front of the checkpoint on the limit side there are about 30 vehicles. speaking about kaliningrad transit, it should be noted that lithuania passes russian cargo through its territory. not just out of kindness sincerely, but firstly, because, for example, the lithuanian railways made excellent money and make money on this very transliteration, and secondly, there are obligations not to interfere with transit, both in bilateral agreements between russia and lithuania and in agreements between russia and the european union. first commitment. it is not only lithuanian but also uh obligations of the european union when joining the baltic states to the european union he does not have visits were legal obligations. they are written in documents in no way impeding any transit of people, or, respectively, cargo and or energy to our region, therefore, er, of course,

legal obligations. they violated their own with such decisions. this is the first the second who violated, because there is such, uh, a certain feeling of the information flow warehouses what does it mean it 's kind of like at first there was a message that these are lithuanians violated? yes, then the lithuanians say yes. no. yes, the european commission made us the first one. uh, this decision was made by the european commission. uh, decisions in the european commission are made by consensus by voting of all 27 t yes members of the european union, that is, lithuania is of course responsible for the decisions that were made by the european union, because it voted for them, uh, and all the more strange that lithuania is about its closest neighbors and in the face of our region, they forget to whom to whom, and they would need to remember about the uh factor of kaliningrad transit and about the peculiarities of our region, so these excuses. in my opinion, well sounds weak victor fominsky director of logistics of the largest transport operator in the kaliningrad region,

which is now urgently restructuring its work, the company specializes in road and rail transportation and is now forced. how to reduce the number of cars and rights that go to greater russia and offer customers combined transportation options both by rail and sea. actually in fact, the situation is very tense and, of course, the republic of lithuania has added additional problems, but in fact the situation has been difficult for several months now. that is, we are adapting every day to the newly emerging restrictions, we will come up with new schemes for the delivery of goods, so the situation with lithuania, of course, was definitely a surprise for us. but to be honest, we were ready for this, so we continue our work. we

are forced. unfortunately carry out uh a lot of new actions to restore the supply chain we reassure customers, but in general the company continues to work and i am sure that we will take out all the goods of our customers in one way or another. in fact, the problems of kaliningrad logistics companies with the transportation of goods through the territory of european countries began even before the lithuanian ban on transit, but then these problems concerned transportation between countries, and between regions of one state, as fominsky says 3 months ago. poland, on a formal pretext, actually stopped transit russian cargo. moreover, these cargoes have not been subject to sanctions since march. we felt the first restrictions associated with the fact that we could not carry it. uh, export cargo from kaliningrad to europe, since, uh, the customs authorities of poland imposed a-a requirements,

increased control over all exported exported goods, and the territory of the kaliningrad region and these requirements were impossible to fulfill, and the so-called full inspection of cargo with full unloading on and border crossings. and poland kaliningrad e, on the polish side there is no infrastructure for holding these events, that is, our practice shows that we have come across once, but we must follow these requirements, let's say. eventually. eh, this resulted in the cost of one container of about 10,000 euros, it took several days. that's when we are talking about a whole train of 44 containers. we understand that this is becoming simply impossible.

the factory of the famous kaliningrad entrepreneur max ibragimov is engaged in the production of luxury furniture, mainly for order this business ibragimov leads. it's been 30 years now. and, of course, all the processes here are somehow tied to uninterrupted logistics, some component enterprises import from other countries, including some european ones from different regions of the country, in the opposite direction, finished products are already enough for a place and a half -two. still, they managed to throw themselves. yeah well, i think for this time for a month and a half. something, probably, will be decided there is no need to panic, because from the fact that we will do panic. yes and nothing will not change. i think that we are all the same logistics, because the thought of a person works well

proactively. here we find now to pick up. we find cargo from europe through other countries anyway , we go around anyway because people are like that, they always come up with something, and we do it, we’ll skip until the beginning of last year, almost all of their cargo , ibragimova’s company transported to the level to get, say, to moscow from kaliningrad by car must first pass the russian lithuanian border, then the lithuanian-belarusian and through the territory of belarus to enter russia again in the second half of 2020. the lithuanian customs reacted very sensitively to the change in the political situation and huge queues appeared on the border of the baltic country from belarus. such that the cars stood for several days, from about that moment, ibragimov's company began to transport about seventy percent of its cargo by sea. and it has already begun, not now. and it started about a year and a half ago. that's all the interruptions in

delivery. there are queues at the borders and that we already gradually switched to a ferry a year ago, because yes, it was longer and more expensive, but it was stably possible to take it to the client, that is, all the cars got stuck there on the belarusian-lithuanian border. you see, not so kaliningrad lithuanian but, there were cars for 10 to 15 days at the end of last year by road. almost 3 million tons of kaliningrad cargo were transported, about 10 million tons were brought by the railway the situation with the ban on transit through lithuania almost half goods that went to the kaliningrad region or in the opposite direction, the only alternative to the railroad is the sea route. now there is a service on the route, baltiysk, that is , four ships operate from the leningrad region to the kaliningrad region, and it is clear that in the near future the number of such ferries should increase significantly. here

in the port of baltiysk, which is 40 kilometers from kaliningrad, most of the cargo comes, which is sent by sea from large russia, the number of ships on the service line, baltiysk first 2022 has already doubled, six months ago , two cargo ferries operated on the route, and at the end of january they were put into operation. here is the new ship. marshal rokossovsky railway ferry transports goods in railway wagons, and also, depending on the free space of its cargo decks, and rolling vehicles, trucks, cars, any construction equipment, that is, relatively speaking, all these ferries are able to transport. uh. here is that list. uh, it means goods that are called sanctions. yes on real ferries

any cargo can be transported, uh, from consumer goods to liquid cargo in railroads. ternakh, as a fuel and lubricant, for example, the fourth ship on the ust-luga route, the baltiysk dry cargo ship ursameydzher it was transferred to the baltic from the black sea in april of this year, there is practically no rush demand, but the ferries operate with a 100% load, reserve for e, loading the multifunctional vessel has an ursambeiser and work is underway to attract additional cargo there. can still in condition or technical capacity of the port? eh, let's put it this way. to increase the flow of electric power, the technical capacity of our ferry terminal allows us to receive additional ferries and additional ferries. apparently, they will. if

the current situation with the ban on transit through lithuania does not change, the four ships currently operating on the route will not be able to transfer the entire volume of sanctioned cargo. the fifth comes out on friday. here in this one, and according to various estimates, from three to six ships per line. you may need these here in the baltic uh, and we will actually start working with the ministry of transport and carriers. actually the fifth ship. i already said it's coming out. and here are some more ships. they are preparing to put on a line that will serve the port or the leningrad region to connect with our region and the large port of st. petersburg. it will also connect with kaliningrad, respectively, this volume should not be enough. in addition, as the governor of the kaliningrad region anton alikhanov

says, the optimization of cargo traffic is also carried out manually, that is, the so-called non-sanctioned goods are transferred from sea transport to the railroad and sanctioned goods, respectively, in the opposite direction, it is clear that during the first few days of the ban on transit through lithuania of a huge list of goods, no real shortage in any industry could physically appear. well, as is often the case, prices for some positions rose simply because of panic , representatives of the construction business managed to feel this before anyone else in kaliningrad. aleksey snegur restores historical buildings and building low-rise housing. he says cement prices in the region soared in just a couple of days. the price changes and because of this it is impossible to add up the cost of, uh, construction and it is impossible to predict. that is, for example, uh, roughly speaking, if an apartment is being built here, here, uh, low-rise construction and apartment buildings. yes, that is, it is very difficult now to deduce the cost per square meter, because it is not clear how much

we will buy cement tomorrow, that is, or 200 rubles. or 500 or 1.000 mechanism for a sharp rise in prices for the most different goods are always similar something similar happened with sugar all over the country. at the end of february at the beginning of march, the panic of rush demand and suppliers who hold goods, thereby disperses the price of large suppliers that they start. well we are facing. i can, well, i won't call. but that means they have the material, they don't sell it. uh, they are specially kept in warehouses. why because what does it mean? uh, they are afraid that they will not be able to start. this is the second time, even if they put it out they bought it, they buy it the old price was bought somewhere in russia, yes, here they immediately put up a new price, the situation with cement for us, unfortunately, is not exactly new. we had the same situation in march until the beginning of april, it

lasted, because many were frightened by these same sanctions. and, for example, they did not carry cement. uh, by rail. there , for some reason, they could not get on the ferry, and the cement was very strong. first, you are appraised. secondly, some speculation began. someone bought in large quantities. there through online stores resold it, everyone used it, and, uh, we had to manually just with a eurocent and with one of the big buyers in the region to resolve the issue of arranging supplies, arranging packaging in the region right away and start selling in one of the large stores, and then all the other stores right away too say, followed this example began to exhibit on the right. well, let 's say the market price. uh goods to the store. so i can repeat this again. uh, we might have some uh, little delays. uh, for

in order to bring additionally here to the line, but we definitely will not allow any kind of deficit. that is, this is not the situation when you have to wring your hands and say to shout everything is gone. well, it's quite manageable. eh, problem. it's unpleasant, but that doesn't mean it can't be overcome. we will definitely solve it and we are already solving it. if we take out the signs of recent times, huge queues at the border with lithuania and other hours-long inspections of goods, then , compared with the railway or road transport, the delivery time by sea is noticeably longer, and the price of services is much higher, but in the current situation for the kaliningrad region. this is perhaps the most reliable and stable mode of transport, despite the transfer cost up to two times. e will be more expensive, and transportation by sea ferry. well, at the same time, to the central part of russia, relatively speaking, there is up to moscow and the moscow region compared to land, but cargo, but this is the average figure again, some groups of goods

are more, some less. we are working. of course, we assume that there will be a difference. e pro subsidized our business. e people. actually. the main thing, probably, yes, those who live in the region should not feel through the change . that the eu will check sanctions directives restricting transit to kaliningrad but even if nothing changes and the situation remains as it is today, no global shortage of goods in the most western region of the country is yet to be foreseen.

i invite you to our next issue of copyright isagon tv program which will be called bloody liberty of europe i think you will understand why it is called so looking forward to our meeting.

sergei shoigu inspected the russian grouping of troops, which is participating in a special operation in ukraine, we were informed about this by the head of the department at the ministry of defense. he heard reports on the situation in the main directions, special attention was paid to the organization of comprehensive support for hostilities and the creation of the necessary living conditions for temporary deployment points the military also sergey shaigu presented the medals of the golden star, the hero of russia of the order of courage to the russian servicemen, who spent heroism and selflessness during the special operation to protect donbass