Lithuania: Russia planning to attack infrastructure

In an interview published Wednesday, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that Lithuania had intelligence that Russia was 'planning attacks on the infrastructure. As a precautionary measure, security around energy and transportation sites would be tightened.

Nauseda, who spoke to BNS, said that he did not know when or where the attacks would take place, nor had he any information about his own country being the target.

"We receive'such signals from our intelligence services. He said that they 'do not clearly identifies place or time... because the enemy is not yet at the end of its planning and we only know about the 'planning or goal.

"It may be a variety of means to physically damage critical infrastructure. ... "Anything that stops the functioning of these websites," he said.

Lithuania, a NATO country that shares land borders with Russia's exclave Kaliningrad as well as with Moscow's ally Belarus, has tripled its defence expenditures since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Poland, a neighboring country, said this month that Western intelligence agencies are concerned about the possibility of Russian attacks on its territory and the Baltic States.

Moscow has consistently denied allegations of?planning or carrying out sabotage?and other attacks?on countries outside Ukraine. It says such reports are part an anti-Russian campaign. Reporting by Andrius sytas, Vilnius. Editing by Andrew Heavens

(source: Reuters)