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‘A question of when’: Why Russia’s next move could be on the Baltics

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, fears have been revived that it will move on other neighbours. Here’s how they’re preparing for the worst.

  • Angus Holland

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Lithuanian emergency personnel prepare to work near the site where a DHL cargo plane crashed into a house near Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lithuanian authorities search for answers after DHL plane crash

Germany is investigating several fires caused by incendiary devices hidden inside parcels at a warehouse in Leipzig for delivery by DHL earlier this year.

  • Andrius Sytas
Yi Peng 3 passing under the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark on November 19, 2024.

Chinese cargo ship suspected in ‘sabotage’ of Baltic Sea cables

Swedish public broadcaster SVT and several Finnish media outlets reported that two Danish navy ships shadowed the cargo vessel as it sailed out of the Baltic Sea on Tuesday.

  • Rob Harris
A university employee presents a fake copy of a first edition of the 1822 book ‘Kavkazskiy plennik: povest’ by Alexander Pushkin at the University of Warsaw library in Poland.

Rare editions of Russian author’s books are vanishing from libraries around Europe

Authorities paint a picture of a network of associates, some blood relatives, travelling across Europe by bus with library cards sometimes under assumed names to scout rare Russian books.

  • Rachel Donadio
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky receives rock star treatment in Vilnius ahead of NATO summit

Since the start of the war, Lithuania has welcomed more than 74,000 Ukrainians – the largest inflow of refugees in the country’s history.

  • Rob Harris
German soldiers in training in 2022.

Germany offers to ‘permanently station’ troops in Lithuania to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank

Polish officials said they were tightening security along its border with neighbouring Belarus in response to the announcement that Yevgeny Prigozhin, would move there.

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Tear gas was also sprayed at migrants at the Belarus-Poland border in 2021.

Poland, Lithuania fear new migrant surge during NATO summit in July

The authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, signed a decree allowing citizens of 73 countries to travel to Belarus without a visa.

Freight cars stand on the railroad tracks of the freight station in Kaliningrad, Russia, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Russia’s security chief on Tuesday said Moscow will respond to Lithuania’s decision to bar rail transit of goods subject to European Union sanctions from Russia to Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. (AP Photo)

Russia threatens Lithuania with ‘serious negative impacts’ over blocked rail

Lithuania has shut the route for transport of steel and other ferrous metals, which it says it is required to do under EU sanctions that took effect on Saturday.

  • Natalia Zinets
Russian President Vladimir Putin hinting at more attempts to conquer land.

Vladimir Putin, in speech, hints at further territorial expansion for Russia

Three months into his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president drew parallels between Peter the Great’s founding of St Petersburg and his own modern-day ambitions.

Grain stored at a farm on the outskirts of Lviv, in western Ukraine.

The race to shift the grain to save the world

A Lithuanian route appears to be the most promising for getting food quickly to populations facing starvation, but that means cutting deals with brutal leaders.

  • Andrew Higgins and Erika Solomon

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