Tallinn. July 31. INTERFAX-US Deputy Defense Minister Colin Kahl and Estonian Defense Minister Kusti Salm have agreed to regularly exchange information about what is happening on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, the Estonian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
"It is important for us that our key allies, such as the United States, share the same understanding of the situation on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, which affects both the Baltic states and Europe as a whole," the agency quotes Salma.
The report notes that Kal and Salm consider it important to exchange information about what is happening on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, "in order to prevent an escalation of events in a situation when anti-Western large-scale exercises "West" will soon begin in Russia and Belarus, and parts of the Russian armed forces stationed there in the spring are still located on the border with Ukraine."
During the talks, an understanding was reached that "what is happening on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border was not a migration crisis in the usual sense, but a hybrid attack organized by the Belarusian regime in order to destabilize Lithuania and destroy the unity between the allies."
It was also noted that " the role of Russia in the current situation requires a more detailed study."
The Defense Ministry called the defense cooperation between the United States and Estonia "close and multifaceted."
The ministry recalled that the United States delivered multiple rocket launchers to Estonia at the European Defender exercises this year, an air landing of 700 troops was made in Estonia, and a joint operation in the field of cyber defense Hunt Forward was carried out at the end of last year.
