The latest EU sanctions against Russia involve not allowing certain goods travel through EU member State Lithuania en route to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Russia has informed Lithuania that there will be severe consequences for this latest action.
Lithuania is a member of the EU and Nato, and the lead Nato troops in the country are the Bundeswehr, German troops.
Until 1945 Kaliningrad was Königsberg - a German city, the home of Immanuel Kant (born April 22, 1724).
Russia has direct access to the city, which has a population of 500,000, through the Baltic.
This is a most serious development and the world must surely be holding its breath.
Yesterday the first of Germany’s howitzers arrived in Ukraine.
The howitzer made by Krauss-Maffie Wegmann and Rheinmetall is one of the most powerful artillery systems used in modern warfare.
That German howitzers are in combat against Russian artillery on Ukrainian soil sounds unthinkable.
Kaliningrad may have changed its name from Königsberg but right now there is so much of what is happening in Ukraine that is steeped in history, in names, in battles. This time it is all turned upside down, with Russia as the aggressor and Germany on the side of the free democratic world.
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