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The United States says it stood firmly behind Lithuania and NATO commitments to defend it after Russia warned its neighbour over restrictions on rail transit. State Department spokesman Ned Price says their commitment to NATO’s Article Five on the part of the United States is ironclad Lithuania says that it would restrict the rail transit of goods sanctioned by the EU into Kaliningrad, an isolated Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland. Russia warned that it would certainly respond to the hostile actions.