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Lithuania to Throw Out Russian Ambassador, Close Consulate over Alleged War Crimes
AP via Breitbart ^ | 4 April, 2022 | BREITBART LONDON

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bucha; buchamassacre; eu; europe; klaipeda; lithuania; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; ukraine; vilnius

1 posted on 04/05/2022 7:31:53 AM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

Gutsy move for a little state.


2 posted on 04/05/2022 7:51:53 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: All

i remember them giving china the middle finger when they open a Taiwan office


3 posted on 04/05/2022 7:56:51 AM PDT by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: GonzoII

Should help push Sweden and Finland into NATO - they’re going to have to sooner or later.


4 posted on 04/05/2022 7:58:28 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: GonzoII

They know the Russians.


5 posted on 04/05/2022 8:09:19 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: rrrod

“They know the Russians.”

Good and hard.


6 posted on 04/05/2022 8:10:38 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: GonzoII

If any country knows about war crimes, it’s Lithuainia.


7 posted on 04/05/2022 8:14:49 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: GonzoII

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.


8 posted on 04/05/2022 8:57:23 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: GonzoII

Lithunaia joined NATO in 2004.


9 posted on 04/05/2022 12:23:09 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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