Russian flags flap in the stiff polar breeze, a bust of Lenin looms out of the snow and a vast slogan declares, “Communism is our goal!”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in Lithuania for security talks with the leaders of three Baltic states. Their meetings have centered around defensive strategies amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday that Moscow would create new military bases in western Russia in response to the expansion of NATO.