DISINFO: Lithuania is shamelessly attacking Russia
SUMMARY
Lithuanian minister of foreign affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis commented on the Russian-Czechian “diplomatic war” and accused Moscow of terrorism. Lithuanian ruling elite set a record of political shamelessness because it insulted Russia and its President already three times.
In 2014 president Dalia Grybauskaite already named Russia a "terrorist state" and accused of escalation of civil war in Donbas. In March 2021 president Gitanas Nausėda repeated the words of his boss in Washington that Vladimir Putin “is a killer”.
RESPONSE
Recurring disinformation about Lithuania and its political elites, portraying the president of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda as the puppet of Washington.
The comment of the foreign minister of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis was linked to events in the Czech Republic. Prague expelled 18 Russian diplomats after intelligence agencies concluded that Russian military agents were involved in a massive ammunition depot explosion on Czech soil in 2014. The Bellingcat group also concluded that with the Czech arms depot explosion in 2014 was directly involved senior GRU leader Col. Gen. Andrey Averyanov and also Dr. Alexander Mishkin and Col. Anatoly Chepiga who also are suspects in the Sergei Skripal case.
As for the war in Ukraine, it is not a civil conflict. Russia is the responsible party for the outbreak of the conflict in 2014, after having illegally annexed the Crimean peninsula and engineering the creation of separatist militias in Donetsk, Luhansk, and other places, with its army actively participating in military clashes.
In his comment, Gabrielius Landsbergis said that “Russia is once again showing that it is a state that supports terrorism, terrorist acts”.
Pro-Kremlin disinformation periodically accuses Lithuania of anti-Russian actions and Russophobia. See similar cases: Lithuania is using Russophobia to attract attention to itself in big European politics; Lithuania is activating its Russophobic policy to please Washington and Brussel; Lithuania uses “Russian threat” to get more money from the EU.