U.S. Patriot air defense missile batteryHELSINKI, Mar 18 defense (AD), said the heads of the foreign affairs committees of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian parliaments at a hearing in the US Congress on Thursday. The Helsinki Commission of the US Congress held a public hearing on the security of the Baltic states. 2022/03/5e40dae81f0d705ca3ed17cf55ccae8e.jpg» />Lavrov responded to rumors of Russian attacks on the Baltic states and PolandAccording to the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament, Marko Mihkelson, the Americans understand that due to the events in Ukraine, the assessment of security has changed, and it seems that the United States is ready to make an even greater contribution to the security of the Baltic region «I believe that in cooperation with the United States and its allies, we will be able to find temporary solutions until we ourselves can develop an air defense system. We need air defense now, and we want the allies' air defense systems to be directed and to the Baltic countries,” Mihkelson told the Estonian broadcasting portal ERR on Friday. February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. responsibility for anti-Russian psychosis
