Russia’s buildup near the Ukrainian border is likely to secure the Kremlin a stronger negotiating position as the possibility remains that tensions are resolved peacefully, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said.
“I still believe in the peaceful solution of this conflict,” Nauseda said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Friday in Brussels. “Yes, there are a lot of rumors — we should probably stay calm and talk about the possibility of resolving this conflict peacefully.”
The U.S. says Russia is poised to attack Ukraine after massing some 150,000 troops and heavy machinery near its border, while seeing no evidence of a pullback announced earlier this week. Russia has dismissed the warnings as “hysteria” even as it carries out vast military exercises in neighboring Belarus.
