How Russia's Baltic neighbors are trying to strengthen their defense capabilities | DW News

Three years into Russia's war against Ukraine, Moscow's Baltic neighbours are trying to prepare for the potential threat of war on their own soil. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are constructing the so-called Baltic Defense Line to would ward off a Russian attack. DW correspondent Juri Rescheto went to the Latvian border town of Karsava to find out how the border region is strenghtening its defense capabilities.

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[PavlovsDog-yfwu]

Putin, "They made me invade them because they were afraid that I'd invade them."

[GdaySport]

What a curse to be neighbours with Russia...

[MysliusLT]

Just doing our homework. Prepare for worst, expect the best.

[rocksmo]

The Baltic countries will never forget the atrocities commited by Moscow during the soviet occupation.

[yogurtins]

Ahh, the russian accent of those 2 that doubt the necessity of strenghtening the borders 😂

[adeyemijames]

Those downplaying Russia's imperialism demonstrate short memory. Ukraine's devastation by Putin Russia is still raging without respite!

[TheTwangKings]

What a nightmare to have Russia as a neighbor. No wonder that they all joined NATO 💪✊👍👌

[proselytizingorthodoxpente]

Considering Russia's violent hatred for all its neighbors this is a wise decision

[ultimaratio]

Seems like a very wise and prudent decision to strengthen defences while there's still time.

[Letten]

How telling that people interviewed who said that Defensive line on the boarder is unneeded had Russian accents

[stennan]

Stay strong and give no quarter Baltic Bros! Ruzzians will use any chance to mess with their old "colonies", which Putin seems to be longing to restore with Ukraine being the first step.

You are doing great being the biggest Ukraine supporters per GDP basis. Makes me as a Swede look up to you from across the NATO lake
❤🇸🇪

[goredawg]

I wonder if the Russian trolls realize they are going to be conscripted soon?

[mireklalas]

It is wrong to assume that mighty Russia can easily dismantle such border defenses. Russia is not as mighty as it pretends to be, while the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania must remember that the Russian bear, mighty or not, is always scheming to grab what does not belong to him.

[thechrisandphaedrusshow]

Better safe than sorry...especially if you have a border with Russia.

[Stan]

Someone in Eastern Europe is still so naive to say *ruzzia has no interest*.

[goldencheesesteak]

The thing about Russia is- they keep taking lands from their neighbors, slowly but surely. They'll even wait patiently for decades or centuries, but eventually they'll grab lands from the neighborhood slowly. The recent modern land-grabbing venture is done through 10+ years span, they took from Georgia then Ukraine. Several decades before, they took land from China at the end of WWII, then from Finland. Russia is playing the long game.

[Elijah-qutt]

Baltic states will never forget the atrocities perpetrated by the soviets during their occupation.

[Ernesto_Che_Guevarra]

Nobody in Europe likes Russia, except for Belarus.Her neighbors hate Russia.😂😂😂

[walther]

It's hilarious to read all the Russian bot comments. Tells you a lot about the current state of the Russian people and their fanboys.

[ernststag]

oh the irony the russian accent having people don't think russia is a threat...