VOA News: Russia Offered Baltics Cheaper Gas for NATO Exit

Lithuania’s president says that Russia, in an effort to maintain influence over territories that were once part of the Soviet Union, has set out to make the Baltic states “unreliable partners” for NATO and the European Union.

In an interview with Germany’s Focus magazine, Dalia Grybauskaite said that according to her sources, there have been Russian offers to reduce oil and gas prices for Estonia and Latvia, if they were to terminate their NATO membership.

According to Grybauskaite, the offer was part of a broader effort by Moscow to discredit the Baltic states as tensions between Russia and the West escalate over Ukraine.

In the interview, Grybauskaite also compared Russian president Putin with the Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin and Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
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