"The Baltics should belong to
Russia," said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Duma's Defense
Committee Aleksei Zhuravlev, reacting to Lithuanian President
Gitanas Nauseda's outrage over Kaliningrad authorities' decision
to rename the local museum dedicated to Lithuanian poet
Kristijonas Donelaitis. Zhuravlev added that Vilnius would be
rightfully Russian as it was already part of the tsarist empire,
pointing out that the Suwalki crossing, the strip of territory
separating Belarus from Kaliningrad, could be useful for Russia
to make supply lines into the Kaliningrad oblast more
convenient. The Russian politician then called on Lithuanian
politicians to "hold their tongues," pointing out that the
Vilnius army could not withstand a confrontation with Russia
even for a day.
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