Its prime minister of Estonia Kaya Kalas denounced the usual today intimidation tactics on her behalf of Russia after issuing an arrest warrant at her expense and at the expense of other European officials.
The Kremlin justifies the arrest warrant by accusing the officials of the Baltic states as well as Poland of hostility towards Russia, due to a different view of the History of their relations.
“The action of the Russian Federation is not surprising as it is their usual intimidation tactic,” Kalas said in a statement, pledging to support Ukraine emerging from war and combat “Russian propaganda.”
“I will not be silent, I will continue to strongly support Ukraine and support the strengthening of European defensehe emphasized.
The Baltic countries, members of the EU and NATO, fearing the Kremlin's military ambitions, consider the Soviet Union to have taken them over, while Moscow considers it a liberator and considers any other approach a “falsification of history”, which constitutes crime in Russia.
Kalas and other officials from the Baltic countries and Poland prosecuted for “destroying monuments to Soviet soldiers”the representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said today.
In recent years, as reported by APE-MPE, several of these monuments inherited from the Soviet Union after the Second World War were demobilized in the Baltic countries and in Poland, as a sign of rejection of the Soviet period, as these countries consider that had been occupied by the Soviet Union.
“Crimes against the memory of the liberators of the world against Nazism and fascism must be punished. And this is just the beginning,” he added.
A Russian minority resides in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, three former Soviet republics that are now members of the EU and NATO and have strained relations with Moscow.
These relations were further strained by the conflict in Ukraine. The Baltic countries, which consider the threat of a Russian threat to be real, strongly support Kiev in its battle against the Russian military.
Source: News Beast
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