{"id":181528,"date":"2025-06-13T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181528\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:32:09","slug":"baltic-countries-team-up-on-mass-evacuation-plans-as-russian-threat-grows-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181528\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltic countries team up on mass evacuation plans as Russian threat grows \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cClear procedures are crucial, as is the rapid exchange of information,\u201d said Lithuania\u2019s Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovi\u010d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/vrm.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/baltijos-saliu-vidaus-reikalu-ministrai-stiprina-bendradarbiavima-civilines-saugos-srityje\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>, adding that this would ensure a quick roll out of measures and ensure there is no panic before and during a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important for the Baltic countries to maintain a unified approach and coordinate actions when threats arise in order to ensure the safety of our people \u2014 especially in the event of large-scale evacuation,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move comes ahead of\u00a0Zapad 2025\u00a0\u2014 the joint military exercise between Moscow and Minsk \u2014 set to take place in Belarus this September. Allied officials are increasingly uneasy about the drills, which some see as a potential prelude to aggression. <\/p>\n<p>Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya warned in a recent interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/06\/13\/russia-might-use-belarus-to-attack-the-baltics-but-belarusians-will-not-do-it-tsikhanouska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a>\u00a0that the exercises pose a real threat, noting that\u00a0Zapad 2021\u00a0preceded Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Baltic agreement follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksoverheid.nl\/documenten\/publicaties\/2025\/05\/22\/joint-statement-european-coalition-on-civil-preparedness-and-resilience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint declaration<\/a> made in late May by the interior and civil protection ministers from eight EU countries \u2014 Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden \u2014 calling for urgent additional measures to strengthen civil protection, preparedness and resilience both nationally and at the EU level.<\/p>\n<p>The statement underscored that national security is not only about military readiness but also hinges on civil preparedness. The capacity to maintain internal stability and respond to a wide range of crises, from natural disasters to hybrid threats, is vital \u201cto protect our citizens and to help them protect themselves, now and in the future,\u201d the ministers wrote in the joint statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cClear procedures are crucial, as is the rapid exchange of information,\u201d said Lithuania\u2019s Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovi\u010d in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[767,1789,768,6659,7961,2814,1112,769,31865,1113,1114,1215,2597,11052,2341,8720,332,5549,811,6647,812,3053,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-181528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-baltics","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-crisis","12":"tag-cross-border","13":"tag-data","14":"tag-estonia","15":"tag-finland","16":"tag-hybrid-threats","17":"tag-latvia","18":"tag-lithuania","19":"tag-luxembourg","20":"tag-military","21":"tag-natural-disasters","22":"tag-prevention","23":"tag-resilience","24":"tag-russia","25":"tag-safety","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-stability","28":"tag-sweden","29":"tag-the-netherlands","30":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114677019035756838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}