“We have very clear pro-Kremlin, pro-Putin candidates. If you look at the ratings, when a few percent of the public support such actors, it is apparently an environment for Kremlin actors to work in Lithuania and have the opportunity to recruit people who will probably cooperate and provide information to our unfriendly neighbor, S. Skvernelis told reporters in the Seimas on Tuesday. .
According to the ex-premier, it is necessary to take steps so that there are no more manifestations of the Kremlin’s narrative in society.
“We can see that there is a sufficient number of people who would wait with flowers for Russian tanks to enter Lithuania, and they are represented by politicians who were in the Seimas until recently,” he said.
Presidential elections in Lithuania will be held on May 12.
ELTA reminds that Russia and Russian communities celebrate Victory Day over Nazi Germany on May 9. At that time, Europe commemorates the end of the Second World War a day earlier, on May 8. After the end of the Second World War, Lithuania remained part of the Soviet Union, which occupied it and carried out repressions against the peaceful population.
Last year, on the eve of May 9, the monument of partisan leader Adolfos Ramanauskas-Vanagas was desecrated in Merkina. There was also a report of another attack in the Lazdija district, in the village of Bielėnai – the monument of the partisan leader was not only covered with white paint, but an ax was also found cut into the sculpture.
