Andrius Sytas

Europe must remove borrowing limits for defence spending or face the prospect of war with Russia, Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene told Reuters on Tuesday. https://t.co/SJ9KKqiAbV

The Estonian navy detained and boarded a Russia-bound oil tanker on an EU sanctions list on Friday, accusing it of sailing illegally without a valid country flag. https://t.co/VkpLpRGZ4U https://t.co/xVzkKOQrPB

Lithuania launches inquiry "into the cause of the fatality" on Monday, shortly after the U.S. military vehicle, crewed by 4 U.S. troops and missing since Tuesday, was recovered from a swamp in a military training ground near Belarus, Prosecutor General told reporters. https://t.co/AgKevfTHzN

Rescuers in Lithuania were digging on Thursday into a peat bog in a military training area to recover the vehicle of four U.S. soldiers missing for two days. https://t.co/1OzvunbqiA

A search for four U.S. soldiers continued in Lithuania after their vehicle was found submerged in a training area, the U.S. Army said on Wednesday. https://t.co/IZg03Mdj1S

Lithuanian prosecutors accused Russia's military intelligence on Monday of orchestrating an arson attack on an IKEA store in Vilnius in May, and suggested it may have been targeted because the chain's logo uses the same colours as Ukraine's flag. https://t.co/fjDi4DTJrb

Latvian workers used a crane to reach the high-voltage wires in Vilaka, 100 metres from the Russian border, and cut them. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia disconnected their electricity systems from Russia's power grid on Saturday. https://t.co/SiSvmBCHL0

The Baltic states are set to sever ties with Russia's power grid that date back to the 1950s, and instead integrate further with the European Union, as the suspected sabotage of subsea cables has spurred efforts to strengthen regional security. https://t.co/yd5jYmreyl

An undersea fibre optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged on Sunday, likely as a result of external influence, Latvia said, adding its navy had dispatched a patrol boat to inspect a vessel suspected of involvement. https://t.co/H7hQ9HWXjd

Centuries-old international maritime law has to be updated to outlaw damage to undersea infrastructure such as cables and pipelines, the Estonian justice minister told Reuters after cables connecting it to Finland were again damaged this week. https://t.co/oyJhjhXQHM

Finnish authorities said they boarded and took control of an oil tanker travelling from Russia on Thursday, on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power cable and three internet lines connecting Finland and Estonia a day earlier. https://t.co/F2wPKb77o8

Vessels of Russia's so-called shadow tanker fleet will be boarded or put on a sanctions list if they do not provide proof of insurance, Estonia's prime minister said on Tuesday. https://t.co/V6aw9cLAAQ

Twelve Western countries have agreed measures to "disrupt and deter" Russia's so-called shadow fleet of vessels in order to prevent sanctions breaches and increase the cost to Moscow of the war in Ukraine, Estonia's government said on Monday. https://t.co/EOpfJIfqr3

Estonia will propose that the leaders of the United Kingdom-led alliance of northern European NATO countries spend no less than 2.5% of GDP on defence in response to the threat from Russia, Prime Minister Kristen Michal said on Monday. https://t.co/vWv1y8gDyP

Lithuania's new centre-left government took office on Thursday, led by Social Democrat Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and including a party whose leader is on trial accused of antisemitic statements. https://t.co/RRTN3SpgQ7

Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene said on Wednesday that the large U.S. proportion of Western defense spending is unfair to Washington and that Europe needs to step up and bolster its defense industries to deter Russia and China. https://t.co/adZcz6WnHG

Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors, countries and companies involved said on Monday. https://t.co/s0Cg1gzAU8