Lithuania has summoned a representative of the Russian Embassy and handed them a diplomatic note in response to indirect threats from the Kremlin against diplomatic missions in Kiev.<\/p>\n
The note strongly condemned a “warning” issued by Russia regarding possible retaliatory strikes in the event of Ukrainian attacks during Russia’s celebrations marking Victory Day on May 9.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine and such a statement clearly violated the United Nations Charter and international law, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on Friday.<\/p>\n
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It should be regarded as a “direct, cynical and unprecedented threat of violence against foreign embassies and the population of Kiev”.<\/p>\n
The dispute comes ahead of annual commemorations in Russia marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, including a major military parade in Moscow.<\/p>\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a two-day ceasefire in the war against Ukraine for May 8\u20139 to coincide with the events.<\/p>\n
However, Russian authorities have also warned of potential retaliation in central Kiev if Ukraine were to launch attacks during the commemorations.<\/p>\n
Following those warnings, Russia\u2019s defence ministry reportedly advised civilians and foreign diplomatic staff to leave the Ukrainian capital of around 3 million residents in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lithuania has summoned a representative of the Russian Embassy and handed them a diplomatic note in response to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[93],"tags":[41799,41802,41800,28159,171,41801,238,41805,41803,170,41804],"class_list":["post-78267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vilnius","tag-diplomatic-missions","tag-diplomatic-note","tag-indirect-threats","tag-kiev","tag-lithuania","tag-lithuanian-foreign-ministry","tag-russia","tag-russian-embassy","tag-united-nations-charter","tag-vilnius","tag-war-against-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116541358512550852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}