“I don’t know if I should be ashamed”: Lithuanian Prime Ministerial Candidate Visited Crimea After Russian Occupation

Lithuanian Prime Ministerial Candidate and Current Minister of Social Affairs Inga Ruginene traveled to Crimea after it was occupied by the Russians.

This was reported in Delfi.

The official’s advisor, Ignas Dobrovolskas, said that Ruginene has Ukrainian roots. That’s why she went to Crimea to visit relatives.

“The minister supports Ukraine and will do so until Kyiv wins,” he emphasized.

Ruginene herself explained that she did not consider the visit to occupied Crimea to be anything bad, because “those were different times then.”

“I don’t know if I should be ashamed that during that period I had private visits to distant relatives. Then it was one time, now it’s another. I have repeatedly stated that I am for Ukraine with all my heart, especially since I had to spend a lot of time there,” she said.

Earlier it became known that in Lithuania the government of Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas resigned . He announced the decision at a meeting on August 4, saying that he was handing over an official notice of his resignation to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda.

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