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On this Back Story Russia has threatened Lithuania for its decision to stop sanctioned goods crossing from Russia to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
Host Dana Lewis talks to fmr. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius who says Russia has to be confronted.

And foreign fighters in Ukraine - British and American volunteers to the Ukraine army captured by Russian forces could face the death penalty.
I interview the Soufan Centre's Naureen Chowdhury Fink, who warns foreign fighters could prolong the war and says Russia which claims it's acting against Nazi's, has in fact nurtured neo-Nazis in Russia for years.

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