Lithuania and Latvia Warn Russia of Planned Attacks on Baltic and Polish Critical Infrastructure

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs said intelligence services have signals that Russia is preparing sabotage or limited kinetic attacks on critical infrastructure – energy and transport facilities – in the Baltic states and Poland. Nauseda told BNS, “I cannot deny that we have such information and that it concerns limited kinetic operations likely targeting critical infrastructure.” Rinkēvičs added that Moscow could use such actions to test NATO’s Article 5 and the alliance’s response mechanisms. Lithuania has already tightened security around its energy and transport sites, and the three Baltic states along with Poland have reinforced protection of key assets. Polish leaders, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk, describe the security environment as “very unstable” and warn of possible escalations in the coming weeks. The Kremlin dismissed the warnings as propaganda, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling them “new batch of scare stories.” The statements were made at a joint press conference in Vilnius amid ongoing concerns over hybrid Russian operations on NATO’s eastern flank.