MOSCOW, July 15 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected Lithuanian allegations that Moscow is planning attacks on the country’s infrastructure, describing them as a pretext for militarisation against Russia.
Lithuania has intelligence that Russia is planning attacks on infrastructure, and security around energy and transport sites will be tightened as a precaution, President Gitanas Nauseda said in an interview on Wednesday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “This is simply the latest batch of scare stories designed to continue brainwashing the population and preparing it for further militarisation.
“To achieve this, they need to cast another country – in this case, ours – as the enemy, and use that pretext to continue building up NATO military infrastructure in all its forms across the Baltic states.”
(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov; Writing by Gleb Stolyarov; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
