Lithuania warns that the Russian threat is still present in Kaliningrad

MADRID, 2 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Lithuanian Defense Minister, Arvydas Anusauskas, has warned this Friday that the Russian threat is still present in the Kaliningrad exclave and has warned that in the area "the military have been replaced and there are still nuclear weapons".

"We see how the Kaliningrad region becomes an indestructible Russian aircraft carrier in the region. It has its capabilities, its tactical nuclear weapons, here, together with Lithuania," he asserted before pointing out that those soldiers who were transferred from the territory to Ukraine for the Russian invasion have already been replaced by other troops mobilized for that purpose.

In this sense, he has indicated that this deployment "sometimes threatens Lithuania", with which the territory borders in the north, and has stated that "the level of threat is changing but it does not disappear". "We saw how the contingent in the area decreased because the troops were transferred. These troops did not return, but they have been replaced," he explained, according to the Delfi news portal.

Although he has recognized that the threat to Lithuania "is not significant right now as Russia sends its forces to the front in Ukraine", he has lamented that there is a need to "prepare for the worst", in relation to the idea that the war ends up spreading beyond the Ukrainian borders.

"If you don't prepare for the worst, the worst possible scenario will come true. Now the politicians say that the Baltic countries were right. Now we will listen to them," he asserted.

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense plans to send aid of more than two million euros to Ukraine, which will benefit some 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the face of the harsh winter.