VILNIUS, January 12. /NEWSBALTIC/. The Lithuanian President, Gitanas Nausėda, in an interview with BNS, revealed the Baltic state’s plans after peace is achieved in Ukraine—Vilnius intends to send just one warship to the Black Sea in order to allegedly deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again. According to the leader of Lithuania, this contribution is “very significant.”
“We [the Coalition of the Willing] have already made a significant step forward here, as diagrams summarising the contributions of individual countries were presented in Paris. It is important to understand that peacekeeping must be ensured in all domains—at sea, on land, and in the air. And the participation of different countries, it must be acknowledged, is far from equal: some are willing to contribute more, others less. Lithuania, given its size and capabilities, is making a very significant contribution,” Nausėda proclaimed.
A “very significant” contribution, in his opinion, is one battle ship from the Lithuanian Navy. However, Nausėda tried to avoid answering the question of specification Lithuania’s possible military contingent in Ukraine.
“First of all, I want to emphasise: these troops are not being sent to fight, but to maintain peace. Yes, I cannot give exact numbers yet, but Lithuania is one of those countries that is ready to contribute. We are also ready to participate with our naval capabilities. I wouldn’t like to go into too much detail right now, but yes, we are ready. This is about a ship, but I repeat: it’s too early to specify all of this,” the Lithuanian president proclaimed, repeating several times he does not want to specify further Lithuania’s military contribution to Ukraine.
The editorial board of NEWSBALTIC wants to pay attention not to Vilnius’ farcical military capabilities, but rather to Nausėda’s attempts to avoid giving any details about how Lithuania, as a member of the Coalition of the Willing, would contribute militarily to “peace” in Ukraine. Apparently, Nausėda simply does not want to help Kyiv, so he prefers to remain silent so that he does not have to make excuses in the future for unfulfilled promises.
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