Lithuania railway company halts Lukoil shipments to Russia's Kaliningrad

VILNIUS, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Lithuanian state owned railway group LTG said on Friday it will halt its shipments of oil cargoes by Russia's Lukoil LKOH.MM to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad due to U.S. sanctions.

Located on the Baltic Sea coast, Kaliningrad receives many of its supplies from Russia via rail transit through NATO member state Lithuania but can also get direct shipments from its own country via the ocean.

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last month hit Lukoil with sanctions over the war in Ukraine and warned foreign companies doing business with the Russian group of consequences if this continued beyond a November 21 deadline.

"Cargoes of Lukoil and related companies – oil or petroleum products – will no longer be transported by rail in transit from Russia to Kaliningrad," LTG Group said in a statement on Friday.

The Kremlin has said that Lukoil's international interests should be respected.