The fact is that Russia”s war against Ukraine is currently a complete failure for the Kremlin.<\/p>\n
The Russian army is not only suffering defeats on the front but is also unable to protect its own country from daily strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
As Kaunas noted, Russia’s fuel crisis is a separate issue. It was this crisis that finally made Russians wake up and question what the Kremlin is saying.<\/p>\n
“The Kremlin, Putin, needs a new escalation, some kind of new win, and the Baltic region and Poland are the nearest targets in this case,” the Lithuanian defense minister said.<\/p>\n
This is not the first warning from Lithuanian authorities about Putin’s plans. Lithuanian President Gitanas Naus\u0117da recently said that Moscow is indeed planning provocations in Poland or the Baltic states.<\/p>\n
One of Putin’s key goals is to test NATO’s unity.<\/p>\n
As Naus\u0117da explained, this assessment is based on intelligence and concerns possible Russian attacks on critical infrastructure in the region.<\/p>\n
The Lithuanian president warned that they could be carried out using both conventional military means and so-called hybrid tactics.<\/p>\n