Lithuania’s top diplomat said Russia’s live-fire military exercises adjacent to NATO territorial waters of the Baltic Sea are a direct military threat in the guise of routine naval drills.
Russia on Wednesday began the three days of missile tests to the alarm of Latvia, in particular, a NATO member who says the air-and-sea target practice with live munitions forced it to partly shut down civilian airspace and caused neighboring Sweden to reroute air and maritime traffic.
“They do it all the time,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius told VOA’s Russian Service on Wednesday, referring to Russia’s Baltic Sea naval drills that were …read more
Source: Voice of America
