A ‘Russian military team’ traveling from Russia’s Kaliningrad to Moscow was detained on Thursday evening, a spokesman for the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said.
Around 9 pm border guards were inspecting the Kaliningrad-Moscow transit train at Kibartai on the border of Kaliningrad region. They were accompanied with an officer of the Centre of Control over the Lithuanian Army’s Movement.
“During checking documents, it became clear that there were four Russian military in civilian clothes in the same compartment,” said spokesman Gedrius Misutis.
According to the country’s rules, a group of four or more servicemen is considered a military detachment. They must apply for permission for going through Lithuania. The Russians failed to do it.
The border guards refused to let the men enter the country and took them off the train.
At midnight, the Russian military were back to Kaliningrad region.
belsat.eu, following Delfi
