Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, announced that an interagency group is preparing response measures to Lithuania's recent enforcement of EU sanctions on Russia, and he said Russia's actions will occur "in the near future" and "have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania," Current Time reported June 21. The EU sanctions block Russian goods like steel, wood, coal, oil products and advanced technology from traveling to or through EU territory, effectively preventing them from reaching the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad by ground.