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VILNIUS, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Estonia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has described Russia as a “reliable” security threat to the Baltic region in the medium to long term. military He said that he still believed in the power to exert pressure.
NATO and Europe Union members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – the so-called Baltic states – have sharply increased defense spending in response to Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and its invasion of Ukraine last year.
“against Estonia in 2023 due to Russian intervention in Ukraine military attack is unlikely,” but “in the medium and long term, Russia’s bellicosity and foreign policy ambitions have significantly increased security risks for Estonia,” the Estonian service said. annual report on Wednesday.
“Russia Baltic countries NATOconsiders the most sensitive part of NATO–Russia them during the conflict military will turn it into a center of pressure.”
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Russia’s military presence near the borders of the Baltic states could be restored within four years, the intelligence service said.
He said that Russia’s plan to hold large-scale military exercises on its western borders two years ahead of schedule could further aggravate the security situation in the Baltic region this year.
Russia “It can be seen as a deterrent and a threat to the West and an encouragement of patriotism among the Russian population,” he said, with the main exercise moving forward to sometime this year as it invades Ukraine.
Russia is determined to continue its aggression in Ukraine until 2023 as it seeks to subdue Kiev and its Western backers, but it is “very unlikely” to use tactical nuclear weapons in the conflict, Estonia’s intelligence service said.
It said that the president Vladimir Putin his government is certain to remain in power for the foreseeable future and any replacement is unlikely to be democratic.
Reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius, Editing by Terje Solsvik and Bernadette Baum
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2023-02-08 17:29:41
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