“If such an answer will not be discovered, we don’t rule out on the lookout for a regional resolution,” Landsbergis stated. He didn’t elaborate on what that is perhaps.

The 5 international locations he spoke about, which all are EU members, need the bloc as a complete to cease issuing vacationer visas to Russian residents. They’ve already both stopped issuing such visas or put limitations on them, saying Russians shouldn’t be in a position to take holidays in Europe whereas Moscow wages struggle in Ukraine.

In Warsaw, Radoslaw Fogiel, a spokesman for Poland’s ruling conservative Legislation and Justice get together, stated Tuesday they need the “hardest potential limitations in granting visas to Russians, on a European degree.”

Nevertheless, there is no such thing as a unanimity throughout the 27-member bloc and a few EU leaders, together with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, have dismissed the thought as counterproductive. The EU itself has stated {that a} full vacationer ban doesn’t respect the foundations and that every case needs to be examined individually.

The visa situation can be raised at a casual assembly of European Union international ministers on Aug. 31.

The EU banned air journey from Russia after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine. However Russians can nonetheless journey by land to neighboring EU international locations and apparently are then taking flights to different European locations.

Visas issued in Europe’s journey zone, referred to as the Schengen space, can be utilized within the zone’s 26 international locations — together with 22 EU nations plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Usually, folks and items transfer freely between these international locations with out border checks.

Lithuania, together with the opposite Baltic international locations Latvia and Estonia, have taken a hard-line stance towards Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Full protection of the struggle in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine