Lithuania says Russia is planning attacks on infrastructure


FILE PHOTO: Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda attends a joint press conference with Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics, in Berlin, Germany, July 3, 2026. REUTERS/Nadja Wohlleben/File Photo

VILNIUS, July 15 (Reuters) - Lithuania ⁠has intelligence that Russia is planning attacks on ⁠infrastructure, and security around energy and transport sites ‌will be tightened as a precaution, President Gitanas Nauseda said in an interview published on Wednesday.

Nauseda said he had no information on ​when or where the attacks were planned, ⁠and did not say ⁠that his country was the target, in his interview ⁠with BNS ‌news agency.

"We have such signals, which we receive from our (intelligence) services. They do not clearly ⁠identify place or time ... because the opponent ​is not at ‌the end of its planning, and we only know ⁠about the ​planning or the goal,” he said.

"It could be various means aimed at physically damaging critical infrastructure. ... Anything that halts ⁠the functioning of these sites," he added.

Lithuania — ​a NATO member which shares land borders with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and with Moscow's ally Belarus — has ⁠tripled its defence spending since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Neighbouring Poland said earlier this month that Western intelligence agencies were concerned about the risk of Russian attacks ​against its territory and the Baltic ⁠states.

Moscow has regularly denied accusations of planning or carrying out ​sabotage and other attacks on ‌countries outside Ukraine, saying such reports ​are part of an anti-Russian propaganda campaign.

(Reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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