Putin's secret plan on the Baltic countries is published - the media

The Swedish edition of Expressen, Yahoo News and a number of other media were accessed by the Kremlin documents. Even before the invasion of Ukraine, the Baltic States have been warned for several years that the Russian Federation could start a war. In January, the Kremlin speaker Dmitry Peskov even called Poland and three Baltic countries in Europe representatives prone to extremism.

Strategies of influence were developed by the Department of International Cooperation in the Presidential Administration. These documents report that Belarus plans to include the state in the Union by 2030. According to Yahoo News, about 300,000 ethnic Russians make up to 24% of the population of the Russian Federation of Belarus. About 471 thousand ethnic Russians live Latvia, which is about 25% of the country, and 140,000 Russians in Lithuania, about 5%.

It is reported that the main purpose of the Kremlin is to reduce the presence of NATO in post -Soviet countries. This is stated in the joint journalistic investigation of Expressen, the Dossier Center in London, Kyiv Independent, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Yahoo News, Lithuanian LRT and some other media. The published documents state that the Kremlin needs organizations that would promote pro -Russian narratives and Russian culture. Propaganda should talk about discrimination against Russian -speaking.

Estonian businessmen should be offered profitable contacts. "Work with Estonian entrepreneurs, explain that the Russian market is open to them if Tallinn changes its policy to a more pro -Russian," the publication reads. According to Expressen, one of the fled documents states that Russia is trying to use the dependence of the Baltic countries on the Russian power grid.

The Baltic countries are part of the Russian Brell network, but by 2026 they plan to synchronize their power systems with continental Europe. The document dedicated to Lithuania reports that the Russian Federation will try to create conditions under which the Lithuanian leadership should think about potential losses for national security from further build -up in the NATO military presence.

Lithuania should not be allowed to receive NATO -related air defense, but the number of operations and exercises conducted by the Alliance in the region should be reduced. Darius Janiskis, the head of the Lithuanian Security Service, said in an interview with Expressen that Russia is often trying to press other countries through its military force.

"The purpose of Russia is to convince the international community of its willingness to confront the military, unless its requirements are taken into account," he explained. The Kremlin also planned to create an educational institution in Riga that would work to strengthen the position of Russian, literature and culture by 2025. By 2030, Russian, according to the Kremlin strategists, had to become the state language of Lithuania.

Yahoo News, in turn, noted that in Estonia and Latvia reforms were adopted, according to which Russian teaching in schools and kindergartens should be forbidden. In February, the Estonia External Intelligence Service reported that the Russian Federation was considering the Baltic countries as the weakest part of NATO and may impose its military presence that can be used in the event of a conflict between the Russian Federation and NATO.