The Kremlin has warned the United States that establishing a military base in Lithuania and changing the country’s policy on the deployment of nuclear weapons could lead to rising tensions.<\/p>\n
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said, citing RIA Novosti, that the creation of a US military base in Lithuania, along with lifting the ban on the deployment of nuclear weapons, would be “a step towards escalating tensions.”<\/p>\n
He added that if Lithuania’s plans to lift the ban go ahead, Moscow would “have no choice” but to take the measures it deems necessary to ensure its own security.<\/p>\n
Peskov also accused Germany’s leadership of seeking to justify higher spending on militarisation by “creating an imaginary enemy called Russia.”<\/p>\n
The remarks come as the war in Ukraine has intensified in recent months and, according to Russian sources, the scale of attacks and tensions has spread beyond the Moscow-Kyiv geographical area and drawn in a number of European countries as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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