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Read previewEstonia has been "seriously" discussing sending troops to Ukraine in roles positioned away from the front lines, per a national security official. Advertisement"Discussions are ongoing," Roll told Breaking Defense. Breaking Defense reported that Roll made these comments on Friday, just days after the country's defense chief, Gen. Martin Herem, told the outlet that Estonia had internally talked about sending troops to Ukraine. Related storiesEstonia is one of the geographically closest NATO members to Russia, with an eastern border shared with the Russian regions Pskov and Leningrad. AdvertisementThat's about 1.6% of its total GDP, more than any other nation that has supplied Ukraine with aid.
Persons: , Madis, it's, Roll, Martin Herem, Herem, Emmanuel Macron, Ingrida Šimonytė Organizations: Service, Defense, Business, Atlantic Treaty Organization, Breaking Defense, NATO, Lithuanian, Financial Times, Kyiv, Kiel Institute Locations: Estonia, Ukraine, Russia, Pskov, Leningrad, Ukraine Tallinn, Baltic States, NATO, Kyiv, Europe, Finland
Russia plans to increase its troops along its border with NATO, Lithuania's prime minister said. Ingrida Šimonytė said Russia is returning to a Cold War posture and Europe needs to be prepared. AdvertisementRussia is returning to its Cold War posture and is preparing to seriously grow the number of troops that it has along its shared borders with NATO, Lithuania's prime minister warned. Ingrida Šimonytė told Business Insider in an interview that the rebuilding of Russia's military capacities on its borders with NATO member states means that it is "returning to the Cold War sort of posture." As Business Insider previously reported, this is the kind of language Putin used before he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Persons: Ingrida Šimonytė, , Šimonytė, Russia hadn't, It's, Vladimir Putin, Putin Organizations: NATO, Service, Ukraine, EU, Finland, Business, Lithuania, for Locations: Russia, Europe, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Ukraine, Kaliningrad, Soviet Union, Russia's, Baltic
Lithuania's PM said US support is crucial to Europe as "we are not able to do that ourselves." But Europe cannot assume the US will keep helping with its defense, she said. Lithuania wants more support for Ukraine now and Europe to commit to more defense spending. AdvertisementEurope can't keep assuming that the US will fund its defense, Lithuania's prime minister told Business Insider. The country, which borders Russia, has in recent years urged more support for Ukraine and, like many other European nations, has ramped up its defense spending as it warns that Russia could attack another European country next.
Persons: Lithuania's, , Ingrida Šimonytė Organizations: Service, Ukraine Locations: Europe, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia
Lithuania, which borders Russia, says Russia could attack other countries if not stopped in Ukraine. Its prime minister told BI that if Putin is not stopped "whatever happens next is Europe's problem at large." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementWhatever Russia does next will be a problem for the whole of Europe unless it's defeated in Ukraine, Lithuania's prime minister told Business Insider. "If Putin is not stopped in Ukraine, then whatever happens next is Europe's problem at large," she said.
Persons: Putin, , it's, Ingrida Šimonytė Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Europe
Lithuania's PM said Europe is boosting defenses in ways that were unthinkable before the Ukraine war. But she told BI that Europe must do more to protect Ukraine and grow its defenses against Russia. Ingrida Šimonytė said European countries should be spending and manufacturing far more. AdvertisementMany European countries are boosting their defenses in ways that were not on the cards before Russia invaded Ukraine, Lithuania's prime minister told Business Insider. In fact, Ingrida Šimonytė told BI that European countries "are doing things that were unimaginable" before the conflict.
Persons: Lithuania's, Ingrida Šimonytė, Organizations: Service, Russia, Business Locations: Europe, Ukraine, Russia
This picture taken on September 20, 2023 shows trains with Ukrainian grain stored in wagons covered with white tarpaulin on the second and third tracks in Dorohusk station at the Polish-Ukrainian border. Ukraine needs more air defenses to protect its grain export routes as well as regions bordering Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, as he addressed an international summit on food security in Kyiv. "There is a deficit of air defense - that is no secret," Zelenskyy told the Grain from Ukraine summit, which was attended by senior officials from European countries, including Swiss President Alain Berset and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte. Zelenskyy was speaking after Russia attacked Ukraine with 75 drones overnight, the biggest drone assault of the war. "There are certain air defense systems... we are asking for them," Zelenskyy said.
Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Alain Berset, Ingrida Simonyte, Ursula von der Leyen, We've Organizations: Lithuanian, Russia, UN Locations: Dorohusk, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Russia, Kyiv, Odesa, Ukraine's
"There is a deficit of air defence - that is no secret," Zelenskiy told the Grain from Ukraine summit, which was attended by senior officials from European countries, including Swiss President Alain Berset and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte. Zelenskiy was speaking after Russia attacked Ukraine with 75 drones overnight, the biggest drone assault of the war. Zelenskiy said Ukraine would be supplied by its foreign partners with vessels to accompany convoys of cargo ships from Ukraine's ports to guarantee their security. Ukraine, a major exporter of grain, has been exporting grain via unilateral corridors through the Black sea, after Russia withdrew in July from a UN-brokered deal to allow grain ships through its blockade. "There are certain air defence systems... we are asking for them," Zelenskiy said.
Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Alain Berset, Edgars Rinkevics, Ingrida Simonyte, Zelenskiy, Ursula von der Leyen, We've, Max Hunder, Elaine Monaghan, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Lithuanian, Russia, UN, Thomson Locations: Swiss, Latvian, Ukraine, Kyiv, KYIV, Russia, Odesa, Ukraine's, Washington
By Max HunderKYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine needs more air defences to protect its grain export routes as well regions bordering Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, as he addressed an international summit on food security in Kyiv. "There is a deficit of air defence - that is no secret," Zelenskiy told the Grain from Ukraine summit, which was attended by senior officials from European countries, including Swiss President Alain Berset and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte. Zelenskiy was speaking after Russia attacked Ukraine with 75 drones overnight, the biggest drone assault of the war. Zelenskiy said Ukraine would be supplied by its foreign partners with vessels to accompany convoys of cargo ships from Ukraine's ports to guarantee their security. "There are certain air defence systems... we are asking for them," Zelenskiy said.
Persons: Max Hunder, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, Alain Berset, Ingrida Simonyte, We've Organizations: Max Hunder KYIV, Lithuanian, Russia, UN Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Kyiv, Odesa, Ukraine's
The Lithuanian prime minister compared the conflict between Prigozhin and Putin to 'spiders in a jar.' As all eyes were on Russia during the Wagner Group's stunning advance, Lithuania's prime minister compared the rebellion to poisonous spiders trapped in a jar. "Spiders in a jar is an unpleasant spectacle but the end result is always a reduced amount of poison, whatever the outcome," Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė tweeted on June 24. Russian security forces meanwhile took positions inside Moscow to protect against a looming Wagner advance. NATO allies on Russia's border said they are securing their borders in light of the insurrection inside Russia.
Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin, , Wagner, Vladimir Putin, Ingrida Šimonytė, Prigozhin Organizations: Service, Russian, Russian Ministry of Defense, Wagner Group, Ukraine, Putin, NATO Locations: Russian, Moscow, Lithuanian, Prigozhin, Ukraine, Russia, St, Petersburg, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Norway
These countries along the military alliance's front line are now scrambling to make sure they're protected should the Russian military ever come knocking. "There is an imminent need of a stronger NATO presence in our region," Estonia's Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said. For nearly 14 months, the Russian military has been bogged down by its grinding war in Ukraine. More boots on the groundSome leaders in the Baltic countries have said that they ultimately want to host more NATO troops, including permanent brigades, in the years to come. So as the threat landscape continues to shift, the Baltic defense has adapted along with it, Townsend said.
Their success, an expert told Insider, shows how Europe's balance of power has shifted eastwards since Russia's invasion in February 2022. Sergei Grits/APEstonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu told Insider that Ukraine's allies had been "too slow" when deciding to send weapons to Ukraine. AP Photo/Martin Meissner, FileReinsalu, Estonia's foreign minister, told Insider that he had repeatedly engaged with his German counterpart about the decision. Kallas and Šimonytė, the two prime ministers, both told Insider that they support Ukraine getting military jets. "Ordinarily, on less critical matters, peer pressure happens but the public sees very little of it or none of it," he told Insider.
Ukrainians are dying to help protect European security, Lithuania's prime minister told Insider. That's why Ukraine should get the weapons it needs, including offensive weapons, she said. I say we are losing, [but] I think we are investing in a way, investing into our security," she said. Lithuania was sending Ukraine weapons even before Russia's invasion began last February, at a time when Ukraine was fighting Russian-backed separatists in its east. "It's sort of a cliche to say that Ukrainians are fighting this war for all of us," she added.
VILNIUS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Traders are using Turkey, Kazakhstan and Armenia to evade European Union sanctions on Russia in a tactic that breaches these countries' compliance with the bloc's embargo, Latvia's prime minister said on Friday. Krisjanis Karins made the assertion following talks with counterparts from fellow EU members Estonia and Lithuania, which along with Latvia have been among most vocal supporters of sanctions on Russia following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. "It seems quite clear that traders are finding ways to legally trade goods, say with Turkey, Kazakhstan or Armenia which are then resent to Russia, because these countries are not adhering to the sanctions regime", Karins told reporters in the Estonian capital Tallinn. There was no immediate response from the foreign ministries of Turkey and Kazakhstan to requests for comment on the remarks by Karins. At the same time, it opposes Western sanctions on Russia and has close ties with both Moscow and Kyiv, its Black Sea neighbours.
- Have patience, Russia sanctions will work, Lithuania PM says
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Poland and other Western states have said the missile was a Ukrainian air defence missile that went astray in pursuit of a Russian missile. "The better air defence system Ukraine has, the less probability of incidents like that might happen... It is important not only for NATO to provide a decent (air) defence system, but also provide Ukraine with a decent (air) defence system," she said. Since the invasion, NATO has named Russia a persistant threat, nearby Sweden and Finland have applied to join the alliance and the NATO presence in the Baltics has increased. The Belarus military did not take part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Russian troops used Belarus territory for their offensive.
Sursa foto: Profimedia ImagesLituania construiește o barieră fizică la granița cu BelarusulLituania intenționează să construiască o barieră la granițele sale cu Belarusul și să desfășoare armata la frontieră în încercarea de a descuraja intrarea migranților în țară. Anunțul a fost făcut de prim-ministra țării, Ingrida Šimonytė, ca urmare a deciziei regimului Lukașenko de a permite trecerea migranților după sancțiunile impuse de Uniunea Europeană, conform Reuters, citat de Digi24. Šimonytė a mai declarat că Belarusul le oferă migranţilor zboruri spre Minsk de la Bagdad şi, posibil, Istanbul. Ea a spus că are dovezi găsite la cel puţin un migrant. Uniunea Europeană condamnă decizia Belarusului de a le permite migranţilor ilegali să treacă în Lituania ca răspuns la sancţiunile impuse de Uniunea Europeană, a declarat luni preşedintele Consiliului European, Charles Michel.
Persons: Lukașenko, Istanbul . Ea, Charles Michel . Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, Consiliului Locations: Lituania, Belarusul Lituania, Belarusul, lituanian, Minsk, Bagdad, Istanbul, Belarusului, veniţi, Belarus
„Vom începe construirea unei bariere fizice suplimentare, care va separa Lituania şi Belarusul şi care va fi un semnal şi o descurajare pentru cei care organizează fluxurile ilegale de migranţi”, a spus, marți, șefa guvernului lituanian într-o conferinţă de presă. Šimonytė a mai declarat că Belarusul le oferă migranţilor zboruri spre Minsk de la Bagdad şi, posibil, Istanbul. Ea a spus că are dovezi găsite la cel puţin un migrant. Uniunea Europeană condamnă decizia Belarusului de a le permite migranţilor ilegali să treacă în Lituania ca răspuns la sancţiunile impuse de Uniunea Europeană, a declarat luni preşedintele Consiliului European, Charles Michel. Guvernul lituanian a declarat, vineri, stare de urgenţă la nivel naţional, conform Agerpres, în condiţiile în care numărul migranţilor, în principal irakieni, veniţi din Belarus a ajuns la 150 pe zi, mai mulţi decât au intrat în Lituania în fiecare dintre precedenţii trei ani.
Persons: Istanbul . Ea, Charles Michel . Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, Consiliului Locations: Lituania, Belarusul, lituanian, Minsk, Bagdad, Istanbul, Belarusului, Agerpres, veniţi, Belarus
Lituania va construi o barieră la graniţa cu Belarus şi va desfăşura armata pentru a patrula la frontieră cu scopul de a-i descuraja pe migranţi, a anunţat miercuri prim-ministrul Ingrida Simonyte, după ce Belarusul a decis să permită trecerile în Lituania ca răspuns la sancţiunile Uniunii Europene, relatează Reuters, citat de economica.net. Şefa guvernului de la Vilnius a mai declarat că Belarusul le oferă migranţilor zboruri spre Minsk de la Bagdad şi, posibil, Istanbul. Premierul a invocat dovezi găsite la cel puţin un migrant. Uniunea Europeană condamnă decizia Belarusului de a le permite migranţilor ilegali să treacă în Lituania ca răspuns la sancţiunile impuse de Uniunea Europeană, a declarat luni preşedintele Consiliului European, Charles Michel. Guvernul lituanian a declarat vineri stare de urgenţă la nivel naţional în condiţiile în care numărul migranţilor, în principal irakieni, veniţi din Belarus a ajuns la 150 pe zi, mai mulţi decât au intrat în Lituania în fiecare dintre precedenţii trei ani.
Persons: Premierul, Charles Michel . Organizations: Uniunii Europene, Uniunea Europeană, Consiliului Locations: Lituania, graniţa, Belarus, Belarusul, Vilnius, Minsk, Bagdad, Istanbul, Belarusului, veniţi
Lituania intenționează să construiască o barieră la granițele sale cu Belarus și să desfășoare armata la frontieră în încercarea de a descuraja intrarea migranților în țară. Šimonytė a mai declarat că Belarusul le oferă migranților zboruri spre Minsk de la Bagdad și, posibil, Istanbul. Ea a spus că are dovezi găsite la cel puțin un migrant. Uniunea Europeană condamnă decizia Belarusului de a le permite migranților ilegali să treacă în Lituania ca răspuns la sancțiunile impuse de Uniunea Europeană, a declarat luni președintele Consiliului European, Charles Michel. Guvernul lituanian a declarat, vineri, stare de urgență la nivel național, conform Agerpres, în condițiile în care numărul migranților, în principal irakieni, veniți din Belarus a ajuns la 150 pe zi, mai mulți decât au intrat în Lituania în fiecare dintre precedenții trei ani.
Persons: Lukașenko, Reuters, Istanbul . Ea, Charles Michel . Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, Consiliului European Locations: Lituania, Belarus, Belarusul, lituanian, Minsk, Bagdad, Istanbul, Belarusului, Agerpres
Sursa foto: ProfimediaLukașenko amenință că va lăsa „mase de imigranți” să intre în Europa ca răspuns la sancțiunile UEAleksandr Lukașenko amenință Europa că „nu va mai opri masele de refugiați” care vor să intre în Europa și că nu va mai permite tranzitarea bunurilor europene cu destinația Rusia și China. „Oamenii au plecat din zone de război spre Europa, unde este cald şi confortabil”, iar Germania are nevoie de muncitori, a spus el. Le-am spus: băieţi, va mulţumesc şi la revedere!”, a spus Lukașenko. Michel a avut o întâlnire cu şefa guvernului lituanian Ingrida Simonyte, care a apreciat că afluxul „îngrijorător”de migranţi a fost „inspirat de structurile guvernamentale din Belarus”. Le deschideţi şi mai larg uşa acestor migranţi”, a spus Lukaşenko, citat de agenţia de stat belarusă Belta.
Persons: Profimedia Lukașenko, Aleksandr Lukașenko, Lukașenko, Lukaşenko, Charles Michel, Michel, Ingrida, Aleksandr Lukaşenko, aceştia îşi, Le Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, Skoda, Consiliului Locations: Europa, Rusia, China, Minsk, Belarusul, Afganistan, Siria, Irak, Germania, Belarus, Finlanda, Ucraina, Lituania, Africa, Orientul Mijlociu, Medininkai, UE, sovietice, Bruxelles, Polonia, Letonia
Sursa foto: today24.newsMai multe țări din Europa vor să achiziționeze vaccinul din Rusia, în ciuda recomandărilor UEPrincipalul vaccin împotriva Covid-19, Sputnik V, produs de Rusia, împarte Europa în marea criză sanitară provocată de pandemia de coronavirus. Însă acest lucru nu a împiedicat mai multe de guverne europene să se desprindă de abordarea comună a UE și de a lua atitudine. Sputnik a câștigat "cel mai mare premiu de până acum". Germania, care a respectat până acum abordarea comună a UE în ceea ce privește vaccinurile anti-Covid, a declarat că va începe discuțiile pentru a asigura aprovizionarea cu vaccinul rusesc. Un alt imbold primit de vaccinul Sputnik a fost dat de India, după ce Autoritatea de reglementare a medicamentelor de acolo a autorizat utilizarea vaccinului rusesc, respectiv producția la nivel local.
Persons: Johnson, Sebastian Kurz, Andrej Babiš, Alexei, Ea, Vladimir Putin, Kirill Dmitriev, Guvernul, Igor Matovič, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Premierul Markus Söder, Renaud Muselier, Vincenzo De Luca, Jens Spahn, ., Thierry Breton, Peter Liese Organizations: Sputnik, Europeană, UE, Agenția Europeană, Comisia Europeană, Uniunii Europene, Cehiei, Externe, Parlamentului, OMS, Sănătății, federal, Politici, Ministerului Sănătății, Europene, Partidului Popular Locations: Europa, Rusia, Moderna, UE, Germania, Germaniei, Ungaria, Slovacia, Austria, Moscova, lituanian, Ingrida, Sănătății, Moscovei, India, Cehia, Europa Centrală, SUA, Italia, Spania, Bavaria, Franța, Provence - Alpi - Coasta de Azur, Campania, Berlin
Noul guvern lituanian a decis intrarea în lockdown la nivelul ţării începând de miercuri şi până la 31 ianuarie, noile restricţii venind pe fondul creşterii incidenţei infectărilor cu noul coronavirus şi a deceselor asociate COVID-19, transmite dpa.Începând de miercuri, vor rămâne deschise doar magazinele cu produse de primă necesitate, iar învăţământul se va desfăşura doar de la distanţă, a anunţat guvernul după o şedinţă desfăşurată duminică, scrie agerpres.ro Cele 3 milioane de locuitori vor avea libertatea de mişcare restricţionată. Ei nu vor putea călători în afara localităţii şi chiar ieşirile din casă vor fi interzise, cu excepţia celor din motive întemeiate: deplasarea la locul de muncă, la medic, la cumpărături sau la o înmormântare.De asemenea, lituanienilor li se cere să-şi limiteze contactele la o singură familie sau gospodărie.Decizia de impunere a restricţiilor a fost una din primele măsuri ale noului guvern condus de prim-ministrul de centru-dreapta Ingrida Simonyte, instalat vineri.Lituania are în prezent una din cele mai mari rate de incidenţă a infectărilor cu noul coronavirus, potrivit Centrului European pentru Controlul şi Prevenirea Bolilor.Ţara baltică s-a aflat sub un lockdown parţial de luna trecută, dar acesta nu a oprit răspândirea virusului.
Locations: lituanian
Începând de miercuri, vor rămâne deschise doar magazinele cu produse de primă necesitate, iar învăţământul se va desfăşura doar de la distanţă, a anunţat guvernul după o şedinţă desfăşurată duminică. Ieşirile din casă vor fi interzise, cu excepţia celor din motive întemeiate: deplasarea la locul de muncă, la medic, la cumpărături sau la o înmormântare. Lituania are în prezent una din cele mai mari rate de incidenţă a infectărilor cu noul coronavirus, potrivit Centrului European pentru Controlul şi Prevenirea Bolilor. Ţara baltică s-a aflat sub un lockdown parţial de luna trecută, dar acesta nu a oprit răspândirea virusului. De la începutul pandemiei, Lituania a raportat 93.000 de cazuri pozitive la coronavirus şi 815 decese.
Organizations: Agerpres Locations: Lituania, pandemiei
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