Lithuania’s Seimas calls on international community to increase aid to Ukraine

According to LRT, 108 MPs voted unanimously for the adtion of a respective resution.

"The Seimas calls on the international community to urgently and significantly increase pitical, economic, financial, military, technical and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in order to help it regain full contr over its internationally recognized territory and successfully defend itself against further Russian aggression," reads the resution adted by the Lithuanian parliament on Thursday, March 14.

The parliamentarians emphasized that military aid is a priority at the moment and that "delaying aid to Ukraine benefits Russia and prongs the war at the cost of the lives of innocent Ukrainians."

The resution calls on EU countries to increase their defense production capacity as soon as possible "to support Ukraine's victory strategy and strengthen NATO's ability to deter Russia."

The document also emphasizes that the presidential "elections" in Russia on March 17, as well as any other elections held by Russia in the temporarily occupied and illegally annexed territories of Ukraine, are a gross viation of international law.

The Seimas announced that it would not recognize the results of these elections.

Lithuanian MPs again condemned Russia's war against Ukraine and declared the need to convict war criminals and establish a legal regime that would allow the use of frozen Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine and pay compensation to victims of Russian aggression.

Lithuania's Seimas also adted a resution calling on the Eurean Commission to ban the import of Russian and Belarusian grain to the Eurean Union.