Lithuanian politician welcomes the decision of the US President to send more troops to the Baltic state
“The Baltic states are reliable unions and this will significantly strengthen our security,” wrote the Minister of National Defense Arvydas Anušauskas on Facebook.
According to him, although Lithuania already has the strongest combat group of the NATO front forces, the US battalion and the strengthened air police mission, the country is seeking a permanent presence.
Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Chairman of the National Security and Defense Committee of the Seimas, claims that the step of the US President is a very important architecture of Russia’s deterrence.
“Lithuania has been striving for this since the beginning of the crisis in the security region, which was caused by Russia. “This was also raised by our parliamentary delegation when we visited the US Congress two weeks ago,” he wrote on his Facebook account.
“We have taken the position that the deployment of as many front forces as possible in the Baltic States and the constant, uninterrupted military presence of films must be part of the deterrent architecture. In addition, the deployment of 30,000 The security situation is changing for Russian troops, “he said.
On Tuesday evening, J. Biden announced that he had granted permission to transfer US forces deployed in Europe to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
“I want to make it clear: our actions are completely defensive,” he said.
The United States is responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision on Monday to recognize the independence of the two pro-Kremlin separatist “people’s republics” in eastern Ukraine and Moscow’s plans to deploy forces there.
The United States has been deploying rotating battalion-sized units in Lithuania since 2019 – about 500 troops.