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Lithuania is seeking to strengthen NATO’s eastern wing in the wake of Saturday’s rebellion by Russian arms group Wagner and the exile of its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin to Belarus, it said on Sunday. Keitanas Nausada The Lithuanian President after the Baltic States Security Council meeting.
“If some part of the Prigozhin or Wagner group ends up in Belarus with vague plans and objectives, it only means that we need to strengthen the defense of our eastern borders,” declared the Lithuanian president. He stressed that recent developments will affect not only Lithuania, which borders Belarus, but the entire NATO. He said the Baltic country was stepping up its intelligence operations to gather more information about Belarus’ political and security affairs.
Nauseda gets it on Monday Jens Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General in Vilnius. The meeting helps prepare for the July 11-12 NATO summit. Stoltenberg Boris Pistorius Along with the German defense minister, he will also participate in the Greifsturm 2023 military exercise in Babrate near the Belarusian border.