VILNIUS (Reuters) – Changes to Russia’s economy indicate it has military ambitions in Europe beyond Ukraine, incoming Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene said in an interview at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York.
A ceasefire in the war in Ukraine “will allow Russians mostly to prepare for the third wave of annihilation of Ukraine and, secondly, for their next steps in Europe. Because they have transformed their peacetime economy to a military economy for a reason, and Ukraine is not reason enough”, Sakaliene said.
(Reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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