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VILNIUS, Lithuania – Securing an end to the fighting in Ukraine must take place with Kyiv’s full involvement and come with more defense spending by regional countries to avoid any future Russian aggression, according to Lithuania’s president.
“They will use this break in order to consolidate, to strengthen the military capabilities and to strike again in the future,” he told the AP in Vilnius. “And then the main question is, what will be the next target of Russia? Ukraine, maybe. Baltic countries, maybe.” “You can never feel safe living in this part of the world, because we have this neighbor, and we will still have it after one hundred or two hundred years,” Nauseda said of Russia. “You always have the threat from the East, and you must be aware and take all the necessary precautionary measures in order not to be attacked.”
A longtime critic of NATO countries that do not spend more on defense, Trump has threatened he would not defend alliance members that fail to meet defense spending goals. While some European countries have signaled upping their spending to Trump´s desired 5% of GDP would be an economic burden, other nations on the alliance´s eastern flank, including Lithuania, have greeted the proposal as a necessity.
“It would be unacceptable if the peace would be set behind the doors and without the involvement of Ukraine,” he said. “Ukraine paid a very high price in this war. Ukraine lost many human lives. Infrastructure, facilities and houses are destroyed. The Ukrainian people deserve the right to set the conditions of this peace.”
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