Posted on 04/05/2022 7:31:53 AM PDT by GonzoII
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – Lithuania on Monday announced that it will expel Russia’s ambassador and recall its envoy in Moscow in reaction to increasing signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine.The Baltic country also decided to close a Russian consulate in the port city of Klaipeda. “Lithuania strongly condemned the atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces in occupied Ukrainian cities, including the brutal massacres in Bucha. All war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine will not be forgotten,” Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said in a statement on Monday. He added that Lithuania’s ambassador to Ukraine was returning to Kyiv and that Lithuania’s European Union and NATO partners have been informed of its decision to expel the Russian ambassador and he called on them to do the same….
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Gutsy move for a little state.
i remember them giving china the middle finger when they open a Taiwan office
Should help push Sweden and Finland into NATO - they’re going to have to sooner or later.
They know the Russians.
“They know the Russians.”
Good and hard.
If any country knows about war crimes, it’s Lithuainia.
This is going to get out of control and we will be
lucky to survive it.
War has started and we won’t see the end of it for
quite a while.
Hope of peace is just the last remnants of normalcy bias.
The illusion of the “Short war” thinking starts it
but no war ever ends up the way those who start it
think it will.
Lithunaia joined NATO in 2004.
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