Overview
- Belarusian customs reports more than 5,000 Lithuanian tractors and trailers remain in Belarus, with departures allowed only via the Lithuanian border section.
- Ignas Dobrovolskas, an adviser to Lithuania’s prime minister, said long‑term limits on Belarusian rail freight are under consideration.
- Lithuania urged carriers to document losses as it prepares potential compensation claims targeting Belarus or assets it controls.
- Vilnius asked the Lida border detachment in Belarus to facilitate the return of Lithuanian trucks stranded after the road closure.
- President Alexander Lukashenko heard a border report from Konstantin Molostov and ordered actions along the frontier, while Minsk pressed for normal checkpoint operations and called the closure unilateral.