PARIS (Reuters) - Lithuania hit out at Moscow on Tuesday for suspending a Baltic military inspection agreement, calling it another step that would add to tensions in the region stoked by Russia's intervention in Ukraine.
The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, all former Soviet republics with substantial Russian-speaking minorities, have been on edge since March, when Russia declared its right to intervene in neighbouring Ukraine to protect Russian speakers, and seized Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
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