Horror WW3 warning as Russia plotting huge invasion into 3 countries | World | News
Fears have erupted over a possible escalation of Russian aggression amid the war in Ukraine, with warnings that it could target the Baltic states. Moscow has repeatedly accused Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania of trying to work with Ukraine to launch drone strikes at Russia, though they all deny this.
During a press briefing in May, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called this a “concerning” development, adding that “you always worry about escalation”. He said “We understand these countries feel threatened by it, obviously, for obvious reasons.
“So, it’s a concerning thing, because you always worry that something like that can spark into something bigger, and that’s always a possibility.”
Mr Rubio said the US is “watching it carefully” and “engaged” with NATO on the issue. He added: “We’re concerned about it, because we don’t want it to lead to some broader conflict that can really lead to something far worse.”
Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said the Kremlin conducted live-fire exercises for the first time near his country’s border with Russia on July 9.
He said Moscow forces carried out the dangerous war games on Lake Peipus, which straddles the border between the two countries, without notifying Estonian authorities.
Mr Pevkur called the Russian operation “unusual” and “certainly not routine”.
He added: “Russia has not previously conducted weapons exercises on Lake Peipus. In that sense, this is something new. They were firing at a moving target on the water.”
On Wednesday, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said he also had intelligence that Putin was plotting an attack on his country’s “critical infrastructure”, such as the national power grid.
At a meeting with his Latvian counterpart, President Nauseda said: “I cannot deny that we have such information and that it concerns limited kinetic operations likely targeting critical infrastructure.”
He said authorities were monitoring the risk of attacks that could disrupt the country’s energy and transport systems, including facilities that support Lithuania’s connections to the European electricity grid.
