Ukraine ceasefire to increase Russian threat in Baltic region, ministers warn

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A census in Ukraine will dramatically increase the threat of the safety of the Baltic countries, as Russia will move forward with the plan to re-arrange the troops to the northeast end of NATO, the defense ministers of the region have warned.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, connected by the Soviet Union before the return of independence in the sixties, fear that the Trump administration’s broker ceasefire will not stop in Ukraine at once. Baltic countries have noted that Kremlin has already made a plan to produce military and increase additional troops along their borders.

“We all understand that when the Ukraine war is stopped, Russia will quickly re -distribute its forces,” Estonia’s Defense Minister Hano Pevkur told the Financial Times. “This means the threat level will increase significantly very quickly.”

His Lithuanian counterpart, Dovilly ।kalienė made similar comments while in the UK early week.

“Let’s not make any confusion. Let’s not lie to ourselves that will be done in Russia after Ukraine,” he said. “Russia will use this time after a ceasefire to speed its military capacity. They already have a huge, battlefield trained army, which is about to grow bigger.”

The Trump administration has led the discussion with both Russia and Ukraine to end the war, but still a complete ceasefire is still seen. Although Kiev agreed to take immediate enmity in the Black Sea and the US-backed 7-day ceasefire, Moscow has so far only promised to break the attack on power infrastructure, saying that it will follow the Black Sea Agreement only after withdrawing Western economic sanctions.

Nevertheless, the Russia stopped in the fight would give the opportunity to fulfill the plan of 2022 of the powerful army to raise 1.5 million powerful army and Add a whole new Army Corps to the answer, The number of troops near Finland and Baltics doubles.

Pevkur said that out of 600,3 Russian troops currently in Ukraine, 5,3 will probably be re -appointed. “These people will not return to various places in Russia to collect corn or do anything else because they are getting the salary they are getting in the army five to 10 times more than what they can get to their own city.”

Baltic countries are especially concerned about a large -scale military practice known as Zapad, which is near the borders of Russia and Belarus in this autumn. Holded every four years, drills imitate conflicts with NATO countries and include thousands of soldiers, tanks, aircraft and artillery.

Both ministers also warned against the rebuilding of any NATO troops from their country to send a so-called European “assurance power” to send Russia from attacking Russia as a way to prevent it from attacking Ukraine.

“We cannot threaten the protection of the eastern end of NATO,” Pevkur said. “We cannot fall into the trap in which our forces have been fixed in Ukraine somehow. Then we will have risks on our border.”

NATO countries, including Poland and Romania, say they cannot be committed to deploying troops in Ukraine at the expense of their own protection. Estonia also objected to UK plans to plan Ukraine for British defense for Baltic defense.

Currently, Lithuania has been protected by a German brigade that will be placed on its ground in the next months, protected by a multinational force led by Latvia Canada and Estonia is protected by a British brigade that can be transmitted from the UK to the brief notice.

British Defense Secretary John Hilly said earlier this week, “We have found one thousand UK army in Estonia at the moment.” “That serial ironclad’s promise to Estonia will continue – and it will continue because Estonia and our soldiers are … NATO’s front line.”