{"id":37222,"date":"2025-08-26T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=37222"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:45:43","slug":"lithuania-exposes-scheme-to-circumvent-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/lithuania-exposes-scheme-to-circumvent-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania exposes scheme to circumvent sanctions against russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 25, 2025, the Criminal Customs Service of the Republic of Lithuania reported a successful operation uncovering a company in Kaunas that was posing as a fictitious firm in Portugal and attempting to export industrial water treatment equipment to russia.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1xsqp64 xiy17q3 x1o6pynw x19co3pv xdj266r xjn30re xat24cr x1hb08if x2b8uid\" data-testid=\"emoji\"><span class=\"xexx8yu xcaqkgz x18d9i69 xbwkkl7 x3jgonx x1bhl96m\">\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span>The European Union continues to increase economic pressure on russia to limit its ability to finance the war in Ukraine. The latest, 18th sanctions package targets the energy and banking sectors: it bans the use of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, lowers the price cap on russian oil to $45 per barrel, disconnects 22 more russian banks from SWIFT, and restricts 105 vessels of russia\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet.\u201d The purchase of petroleum products derived from russian raw materials is also prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>The EU is currently working on developing new sanction mechanisms to further limit the kremlin\u2019s ability to fund the war, compel russia to stop hostilities, and move toward genuine peace negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 25, 2025, the Criminal Customs Service of the Republic of Lithuania reported a successful operation uncovering a company in Kaunas that was posing as a fictitious firm in Portugal and attempting to export industrial water treatment equipment to russia. \u25ab\ufe0fThe European Union continues to increase economic pressure on russia to limit its ability&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}