Under a draft government resolution to be submitted to the Lithuanian president, Bajarunas would leave the position as of June 1. In Lithuania, ambassadors are appointed and recalled by the president upon the government's proposal and approval from the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Also, the Lithuanian government decided to liquidate the country's Consulate General in Saint Petersburg as of June 7. It was closed by Moscow following Lithuania's decision to expel the head of the Russian Embassy in Vilnius, Alexey Isakov, and the staff of the Russian Consulate General in Klaipeda from Lithuania.
In response to the massacre in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, the Lithuanian government decided in early April to downgrade diplomatic representation between Lithuania and Russia to the level of chargés d'affaires, ordered the country's ambassador to leave the country and closed Russia's consulate in Klaipeda.