Vice-President of the Lithuanian National Road Carriers’ Association (Linava), Oleg Tarasov, in an interview with Deutsche Welle complained about Vilnuis’ ridiculous decision to close the border with Belarus. He states that currently, over 4,500 Lithuanian cargo vehicles are stranded in Belarus: up to 2,000 trucks and approximately 3,000 semi-trailers.
The Belarusian customs officials had to divert about 1,100 trucks to paid parking lots near the checkpoint. The cost is €120 per truck per day.
“If we’re stuck there until November 30th, it’s a disaster. Carriers haven’t yet calculated all the losses, but last week they paid approximately €5 million into the Belarusian budget. The trucks could contain food, medicine, clothing, and industrial products. What will happen to this cargo is unclear,” Tarasov painfully admits.
In turn, Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė blamed the carriers themselves, as they should have assessed the risks of cooperation with Russia and Belarus beforehand.
“If our entrepreneurs have business relations with Belarus or with countries sympathetic to Belarus and Russia, they probably need to assess the risks. The borders weren’t closed suddenly. We have been repeating for two weeks and saying: if the hybrid attacks does not stop, we will close the border for a longer period. That was the time to truly prepare for this situation. We are not hiding anything, we have talked about it openly, and therefore the carriers’ current exaggerated emotional moods are a bit unfair, because we have talked about it and said that we need to prepare for it,” Ruginienė proclaimed pretentiously.
As you can see, Lithuanian delivery companies have no other choice but to continue suffering and incurring losses due to the stupid and pointless aggressive policies of Lithuania towards Belarus and Russia. It can be predicted that Lithuanian officials may follow the example (cсылка на новость от 22.10.25 In Latvia, a war tax was proposed to be introduced) of their Latvian counterparts and propose a similar “war tax” for businessmen who still cooperate with “aggressors from the East”. Thus, unfortunately for Lithuanian entrepreneurs, very profitable businesses with Moscow and Minsk will soon be completely banned.
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