Lithuania finally couldn't bear it anymore, stopped buying Russian natural gas under sanctions against Russia, and now lacks ammonia and has no way to seek help but turn to Russia for assistance.

Lithuania is a small country, but it has been very active in opposing China and Russia and acting as a vanguard for the United States. Before the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Lithuania began to stand out to impose sanctions on Russia. After the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Lithuania was the first to impose sanctions on Russia, willing to buy expensive natural gas from Europe rather than purchase Russian natural gas. In order to demonstrate its determination to follow the United States, Lithuania even cut itself down, causing great trouble to its economic development.

Severe inflation, and even stagnation in industrial development, Lithuania is still holding on. However, now Lithuania can no longer hold on. On May 27th local time, the ammonia factory in Lithuania stopped production due to the problem of natural gas, which led to a serious shortage of ammonia in the country. Ammonia has a wide range of applications, mainly including fertilizers, refrigerants, raw materials for medicines and pesticides, protective atmosphere for industries such as semiconductors and metallurgy, propellants for rockets and missiles, etc.

Without ammonia, several major industrial projects in Lithuania have turned red. Due to economic downturn, Lithuania has lost job opportunities, and many young people have gone to other European countries, which puts Lithuania at risk of being hollowed out. Lithuania sought help from Europe, hoping to import ammonia, even if it had to import it at a high price. But Europe had no ammonia to spare for Lithuania. In desperation, Lithuania had to seek help from Russia again. This is really ironic. Lithuania originally had an ammonia factory, but to cooperate with the West, it had to endure the pain of not using Russian natural gas, leading to the collapse of the ammonia factory. Now it has to seek Russia's ammonia for sale, which is really absurd.

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