Users of social networks say that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania opposed the ceasefire in the Russian war in Ukraine at a time when talking about a temporary ceasefire stop.
The post X says that countries are “afraid” that the “invincible” Russian army is invincible, as soon as the ceasefire is achieved in Ukraine.
The other says that the Baltic states believe that the ceasefire will give Moscow time to correct and turn their attention to the boundaries of NATO.
Others are divided by images, which seem to represent Russian forces to advance to Estonia, Letnia and Lithuania.
But the spirit of many of these messages varies between the deceiver and unbalanced and completely false.
The origin of the distorted statements, by the same, is the news published Financial times At the end of March, which stated that the Baltic Security Ministers warned that the ceasefire in Ukraine would sharply increase the threat of security of their countries.
Estonian Minister of Defense Hanno Pevurku told FT that when the Ukrainian war is coming to an end, Russia quickly redistributing its strength, quickly increasing the levels of threats.
His comments appeared after his Lithuanian homologist, Doville Kaliane, had similar observations that “Russia will not end after Ukraine.”
“We will have no illusions. We will not lie to ourselves that Russia will end after Ukraine, ”she said. “Russia will use the time that follows the ceasefire to speed up its military capabilities. They already have a huge army and trained on the battlefield, which will become even more. ”
Although the United States mediated conversations between Ukraine and Russia, negotiations seemed stagnant. Kyiv agreed to stop the fighting in the Black Sea and a 30-day ceasefire at the end of the day, but Moscow agreed to stop attacking the energy infrastructure and says that he would agree with the Black Sea agreement only if Western economic sanctions were received.
Pevour would say that out of 600,000 Russian troops, which are currently calculated in Ukraine, 300,000 will probably be moved in case of ceasefire.
“These people will not return to different parts of Russia to collect corn or do something else, because the wages that they receive in the army are five to ten times higher than they could receive in their hometown,” he said.
According to FT, this is especially worried about large military exercises, known as Zapad, which is performed by Russia and Belarus every four years to simulate a conflict with NATO countries. This should be carried out again at the end of this year.
Both the singer and the Cabinet will also warn that it is not necessary to allocate troops from their countries to Ukraine after the war how to hold Russia again.
“We cannot jeopardize the safety of NATO’s eastern flank,” said Pevurk, according to the FT report. “We cannot fall into the trap that our forces are in some way corrected in Ukraine. In this case, we will have a risk on our border. ”
Therefore, it is true that the Baltic countries are concerned about what will mean a ceasefire in Ukraine. But it is wrong to say that they are against the end of the hostilities.
Official position of the Baltic countries
Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia and Latvia told EuroWerify that countries are completely striving to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia and Latvia denied the online adoption, noting that their countries support efforts to achieve peace in Ukraine and continue to support Kyiv.
“In short, these accusations on social networks are false,” said the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. “Estonia supports efforts to achieve a fair and long world in Ukraine. The fair world is based on international law, including the principles of territorial integrity and sovereignty. A fair world also means that crimes are punished, and the damage is compensated. ”
European health care is accused of Russia of imposing new previous conditions to achieve the ceasefire and President of Russia Vladimir Putin in the search for “the complete subordination of Ukraine and the fundamental restructuring of European security.”
“Russia must stop attacking the civil and energy infrastructure of Ukraine and comply with the conditions of the ceasefire, which also guarantee the safe passage of merchant ships in the Black Sea,” continued the representative of Estonia. “To date, Russia has not shown any desire to comply with these conditions. On the contrary, the goals and methods of Russia have not changed, and attacks the infrastructure of Ukraine and the civilian population continues. ”
In the same way, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laton guaranteed that the country is striving for the world.
“We all want the world to be simply comprehensive and long,” he said to Eurowerify. “The only country that we do not see is ready for the world is Russia … All indicators when we look at Russia, politicians, economic, military, religion, social networks, the private sector, are oriented towards war. We do not see a single indicator that they go to the world. ”
“The safety of Latvia is closely related to the struggle for the independence of Ukraine,” they add. “Therefore, in 2024, Latvia and its people continued to provide military, political, financial and humanitarian support to Ukraine. Latvia – and the Baltic states as a whole – are one of the largest supporters of Ukraine in proportion to GDP. ”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania did not respond to our request for comments.