The ministers of transport of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland have published a joint letter of appeal calling on the European Union to ban the movement of trucks from / to Belarus and Russia, both by land and by sea. The application is now on the website of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania.

" A ban on the carriage of goods by Russian and Belarusian trucks and the entry of ships of these two countries into the ports will have the greatest effect if adopted at the EU level. The actions of the aggressor Putin must receive a strong, united and decisive response from the EU here and now,"

In the letter, the ministers also propose to cancel the permits granted by the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) to Russia and Belarus for the international transport of goods.

They also call on the EU to take all necessary measures to prohibit the entry of ships under the flags of Russia and Belarus into EU ports..

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Earlier it was reported that the EU summit tomorrow will discuss the joint purchase of gas by the EU countries.. The leaders of the countries should approve the principle of joint purchases of gas by the European Union, which will become one of the measures to level the crisis in energy prices.