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Lithuania calls for enhanced NATO patrols in the Baltic Sea

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys has called on NATO to step up patrols in the Baltic Sea and on the European Union to retaliate now that another cable has been damaged in the sea.

“The infrastructure is vulnerable, and we are forced to implement additional measures because we have to seek other ways to transmit data and because our risks are greater when it comes to electricity supplies,” the minister told reporters in advance of a meeting of the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council on Monday. “At the very least, we must step up patrols so as to monitor what is happening at sea, and we must also take additional steps on stopping the ships that are involved.” The minister added that the EU must sure that liability for the damage is inevitable.

“Perhaps you damaged the infrastructure unintentionally, but we will come and find you to learn what happened,” Mr Budrys says. “If you did it deliberately, we will take all kinds of measures, and the EU really needs to flex its muscles in this regard.”

The comment came after a fibre-optic cable owned by the Latvian State Raio and Television Centre was damaged in the depths of the Baltic Sea on Sunday.

Source: BNS

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