On Wednesday, April 25, the EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and European MPs adopted a joint statement, urging Russia to stop using its energy as a political weapon and resume oil supplies to Lithuania. The statement also says that Russia and the European Union are mutually dependent on energy, and that majority of problems arise from political disagreements.

A regional court in western Lithuania has accepted a civil suit against Russia by Veronika Puskunigyte-Lipeikiene, 70, and Benediktas Puskunigis, 73, whose mother was sent to a Soviet labor camp 50 years ago.