Russia already has nuclear weapons in the Baltic region, Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
It is noted that earlier, Dmitry Medvedev, the vice-president of Russia’s Security Council, said If Sweden and Finland join NATO, then Russia should strengthen its defense in the region, including through the development of nuclear weapons.
Anusauskas, for his part, said nuclear weapons had been developed in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea before the current crisis. “Today’s Russian threats seem rather strange, as we know that, even without the current security situation, they maintain nuclear weapons 100 kilometers from the Lithuanian border,” he said.
“Nuclear weapons have always been stored in Kaliningrad. The international community, the countries of the region, know this. They use them as a threat,” he said.
The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, on the Baltic Sea coast, is located between NATO members Lithuania and Poland.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said on Thursday that the Russian threat to increase military forces, including nuclear weapons, in the Baltic region was nothing new.
Source: Capital
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