PLithuanian resident Gitanas Nauseda called on NATO to strengthen its military potential on the eastern front, the President of Lithuania at a meeting with his Ukrainian and Polish colleagues said that NATO needs to strengthen its military potential in Eastern Europe and develop an algorithm of actions in case of various threatening scenarios
Gitanas Nauseda
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, at a joint press conference with the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland, Vladimir Zelensky and Andrzej Duda, in Guta (Ivano-Frankivsk region), said that NATO should have an algorithm of actions for any scenarios that could threaten the security of Eastern Europe, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
“NATO should respond not only by concentrating its troops on the eastern front, but also to strengthen its military potential. Strengthening the military potential is good, but we must have an algorithm for what to do if there is a scenario A, scenario B, scenario C,” Nauseda said.
The Lithuanian President noted that the events of recent months near the border of Ukraine indicate that “we are losing balance in our region,” therefore, actions must be taken to restore it. “If the balance is being lost now, there must be some reaction from the other side to restore this balance. This concerns the European Union and NATO,” Nauseda noted.
In addition, the Lithuanian president said that the military integration of Russia and Belarus is already an indisputable fact that has been going on for a long time. “First of all, NATO should respond to this, because it changes the security situation for the Baltic countries,” he believes.
According to Nauseda, the security of Ukraine and the Baltic is interconnected. “So that we discuss not only the Ukrainian, Polish or Lithuanian situation separately. And so that it was a discussion of regional security. And it should be a broad reaction at the regional level,” he concluded.
Information about the accumulation of Russian troops on the borders of Ukraine began to appear in the Western media in October. In mid-November, Zelensky announced 100 thousand Russian troops at the borders. US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could happen in early 2022. The United States and other Western countries admitted that they would impose new sanctions against Russia if it tried to send troops to Ukraine.
The Russian side has repeatedly denied information about the upcoming offensive and called the data on a possible “invasion” of Ukraine “an empty escalation”. Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that it is NATO that is making “dangerous attempts to develop Ukrainian territory”.
Last week, Russia demanded to exclude Ukraine from joining NATO and suggested that the alliance abandon military operations in countries neighboring Russia. The relevant provisions of the Foreign Ministry included in the draft security treaty, which was sent to Washington.
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