Gitanas Nauseda said Litwa has intelligence signals that Russia plans attacks on critical infrastructure, and that Wilno will tighten protection around energy, transport and other key facilities. The warning comes as Litwa, a member of NATO, watches the same pressure points that also concern other państwach bałtyckich along the border with the obwód królewiecki and Białorusią.
Nauseda said the signals from Litwa’s intelligence services did not point clearly to a place or time. He said the possible attacks could involve “mogą to być różne środki mające na celu fizyczne uszkodzenie infrastruktury krytycznej” and “Wszystko, co uniemożliwi funkcjonowanie tych obiektów.”
Wilnie strengthens key sites
Nauseda said Litwa will strengthen protection of facilities, the energy sector and transport as a preventive measure. For readers and businesses relying on those systems, that means the response is aimed at a broad category of sites rather than a single named target, with security efforts likely to be spread across the infrastructure that keeps movement and supply running.
Litwa has already raised its defense spending trzykrotnie after Rosja’s 2022 invasion of Ukrainy, and the warning now sits inside a wider regional pattern of defensive preparation. In Łotwa, the border with Rosja is being reinforced with so-called dragon’s teeth arranged in trzech rzędach about około dziesięciu metrów wide, while Estonia has said Rosja is deliberately redirecting Ukrainian drones into NATO airspace.
Kreml rejects Wilno claims
Dmitrij Pieskow rejected the allegations from Wilnie and called them “To po prostu kolejna porcja straszaków mających na celu dalsze pranie mózgu społeczeństwu i przygotowanie go do dalszej militaryzacji.” He also said the purpose was to portray another country as an enemy and to justify further expansion of NATO military infrastructure in państwach bałtyckich.
Andris Rieksts, who is responsible for the Bałtycka Linia Obrony project, said Łotwa is preparing for the possibility of direct confrontation. “Jeśli jednak coś się wydarzy, musimy być gotowi zniszczyć Rosjan tutaj, ponieważ na przykładzie Ukrainy widzimy: gdy tylko oddamy terytorium, odzyskanie go jest praktycznie niemożliwe” — he said.
Państwa bałtyckie under pressure
Tartu authorities have begun covering windows in educational institutions with special protective film, adding another visible layer to the defensive measures now appearing across the region. The practical takeaway for residents and operators in Litwa is immediate: protection is being widened around energy and transport, while the specific site or timing that intelligence signals may be pointing to has not been narrowed down publicly.
The next move now rests with the protective steps in Wilnie and the regional responses already underway in Łotwa, Estonia and Tartu, while the Kremlin continues to deny that the warning amounts to a real threat.
