for a minister on elena burbock made the announcement after meeting with her account to pass from estonia, latvia and lithuania. burbock also sent an unequivocal message of support saying nato allies could rely on germany, 100 percent. mind. i'm going to be away here at all to day. the 4 of us are sending a clear message to moscow if we will defend p. i, a sovereignty id and freedom owns not to nato will collectively defend its territory and protect every corner of a mines. i'm sure, despite those messages of support from germany's foreign minister people in lithuania fair, the country could be moscow's next target of particular concern as they narrow stretch of land known as the so walkie gap bordering lithuania and the russian ex, grave of kellen and grad. many and through amiens fair moscow could some day attempt to cut this passage to it's western nato partners. so some are making sure they're prepared. oh, valuable slash couse gas is straining for the worst case scenario. is a member of the lithuanian rifleman union, a state backed barrow military group that has been growing ever sin

germany has vowed to halt all imports of russian oil by the end of the year. foreign minister on elena burbock made the announcement after meeting with her counterparts from estonia. lot via and lithuania. miss burbock also sends an unequivocal message of support saying nato allies could rely on germany, 100 percent mines. i'm cynthia lloyd here at all today the 4 of us are sending a clear message to moscow. we will defend peace, i sovereignty, and freedom owns the nato. nato will collectively defendant's territory and protect you every corner of a. mine's, i'm sure. let's find out more our correspondent, herculean buyer, and joyce is now from a riga killian, what else that the foreign minister say? well, layla. i think it was clear. one thing, this is a friendly meeting. this is a jovial meeting at the tone of the meeting was definitely very, very friendly. but there was one word that i kept hearing again and again and again . and it was defense, defense defense, like we just heard in the, in the sound bite on alina burbock said, germany is committed to defending the baltic states, because th

is vowing now to stop all imports of russian oil by the end of this year. foreign minister on elena burbock made that announcement to day after meeting with her counterparts from stoney. at lafayette. in lithuania, their book also sent an unequivocal message of support saying that nato allies can rely on germany 100 percent. mind them then for the i want to hear god all to day. the 4 of us are sending a clear message to moscow. if we will defend peace sovereignty and freedom owns the nato, nato will collectively defend its territory and protect you. every corner of a mine's i'm sits, are political correspondence. i'm a young. he has been following the story for him to day. and earlier i asked him, just how feasible isn't for germany to halt russian oil imports by the end of this year. well bred fisher is going to be very tough indeed, because sir around 35 percent of germany's or oil imports come from russia. and we seen how sensitive they say these energy markets are with the prices, the price of energy commodity shooting up just on the announcement that putin was going to invade ukraine a