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Lithuania threatens to stop using Russian oil and gas

March 16, 2022

Lithuania’s president said the country was willing to stop Russian oil and gas imports, in the latest sign of how some EU nations plan to step up penalties on Moscow for invading Ukraine.

“It would create some problems, but those problems would not be critical,” President Gitanas Nauseda said.

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Lithuania got about 63% of its oil imports from Russia in 2019.

President Nauseda said that figure had now shrunk after its oil refinery stopped buying Russian crude oil.

Western countries hit Moscow with sanctions late last month over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the US has banned imports of Russian energy, while the UK is phasing out Russian oil imports.

The EU, which gets roughly 40% of its gas from Russia, has said it will cut reliance on this fuel source by two thirds within a year.

When it comes to Lithuania, President Nauseda told the BBC: “Of course, it depends on time: How long we would need to adjust [to cutting Russian imports].

“But I would say it in other words: We are better prepared for such a cut from Russian energy resources than many other countries in the EU.”

On 3 March, the owner of Lithuania’s Mazeikiai refinery, Orlen Lietuva, said it had agreed a deal with Saudi Aramco for five additional tankers of the commodity taken out of the North Sea.

That, it said, would ensure alternative supplies for Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic.

Four days later, the company said that given the situation in Ukraine, it was “prepared for any scenario, including the complete suspension of supplies from the eastern direction.”

The warning from Lithuania’s president shows how some countries are willing to put further pressure on Russia’s economy.

A refinery in Mazeikiai in the North-West of Lithuania

Aside from oil, Lithuania has worked, over the last decade, to reduce its dependence on Russia for natural gas – including by opening its own LNG terminal called Independence.

Electricity independence, though, is still a work in progress, President Nauseda said.

“We still are connected with the so-called Brell system of the former Soviet Union and this connection does not allow a switch to different [European] systems [at present].

However, he said the process switching Lithuania away from Brell “will be completed in 2025”.

“Now we will try to speed up this process to disconnect faster,” he added.

President Nauseda also acknowledged ongoing concern, including from Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, about whether Baltic nations – including Lithuania – could be the next target for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Unfortunately this is true. Since Putin declared that the largest tragedy of the 20th Century was the collapse of the Soviet Union, he had in mind the Baltic countries, because they are a consistent part of the Soviet Union, too.

“So, this is a threat. We never had illusions that we will be forgotten,” he said.

But he said the country had increased defence spending including on military equipment. And he believes in the Nato military alliance.

“I really believe in the ability of Nato to work effectively as a collective defence organisation,” he said. “I see also, this solidarity in action, with additional deployment and military capabilities on the ground.

“And this is probably the best proof for me that Nato is working,” he said.

Source: BBC

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