Europe must remove borrowing limits for defence spending or face the prospect of war with Russia, Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene told Reuters on Tuesday.

Sergey Naryshkin’s comments likely to stoke concern that Russia could threaten other European states after Ukraine.

The attack follows a deadly Russian missile and bomb attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy. Trump has blamed Putin, Zelensky and Biden for the lives lost since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The funds mark the first instalment under a memorandum of understanding signed between Kyiv and Vilnius in December 2024.

Seimas Speaker Saulius Skvernelis, in an interview with LRT, stated that Lithuanian security services are warning about the ...

According to Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene, the implementation of this plan needs to be accelerated ...