The Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania reiterated on Friday that they have not given Ukraine permission to use Baltic airspace to launch attacks on aggressor state Russia.
The Foreign Ministers of all three countries issued a joint statement underlining the fact, which they have all stated individually before, suggesting that they remain troubled by Russian rumour-mongering.
“We, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, categorically reject the ongoing Russian disinformation campaign against our countries as completely baseless. The Baltic states have never allowed their territories and airspace to be used for drone attacks against targets in Russia,” said the statement.
“The Baltic States have officially refuted these allegations by clearly communicating this to the Charges d’Affaires of Russian diplomatic missions in Tallinn (27 March), Riga (31 March) and Vilnius (27 March), respectively. Notwithstanding the official reaction, Russia has continued lying,” they add.
“Ukraine continues to defend itself from Russia’s full-scale war of aggression, in full compliance with the Article 51 of the UN Charter.
Instead of continuing its malign information operation, Russia must end its war of aggression against Ukraine and fully withdraw its armed forces from all internationally recognized territory of Ukraine. Baltic States remain in full solidarity with Ukraine,” the statement concludes.
The statement came after Ukraine launched what appear to be very successful long-range drone attacks on Russian targets in the Gulf of Finland. However, several drones have strayed off target and in a few cases have crash-landed on Baltic territory.
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