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Speaking to the media on Tuesday, President Gitanas Nausėda stated that he has a negative opinion about some ministers and reiterated that they should be replaced.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė disagrees with the presidency’s implications that some ministers in her Government should be replaced.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Friday nominated ministers of education and social security. The candidates will have to be approved by President Gitanas Nausėda.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has doubts about some of the center-right coalition's candidates for ministers, his spokesman said on Tuesday, but gave no names.

Candidate for Lithuania's prime minister Ingrida Simonyte has on Wednesday announced she's nominating Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, for the position of foreign minister.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says more than one ministers will be replaced in the Cabinet's reshuffle, which follows the return of powers to the new president, Gitanas Nauseda.

European Union foreign ministers threatened Russia with harsher sanctions over Ukraine on Tuesday, with some saying diplomacy was no longer enough to force Moscow to de-escalate the crisis after the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight last week.