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But Mr Grand was keen not to totally downplay the risk of Putin targeting the Baltics.

As for the future, the Financial Times reported that Trump is now considering withdrawing U.S. troops from the Baltics and perhaps even further west.

Rail Baltica began as a grand project, but it has now become a strategic imperative: since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Baltics increasingly view their neighbour as an existential threat.

Not everyone sees the attacks as interconnected, Kallas told the Associated Press, despite NATO’s assertion this month that Moscow is intensifying its campaign against the alliance from the Baltics to Britain.

The two countries, along with Estonia, are in the Baltics, a region that neighbors Russia.