Russia launched a search warrant against the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas
, one of the strongest voices within the European Union (EU) and NATO in favor of the supply of weapons to Ukraine and the tightening of sanctions against Moscow.
According to a news item published this Tuesday on the Ministry of the Interior website, in a new gesture that reflects the tensions with the Baltic countries since the Kremlin's attack on Ukraine, Kallas - 46 years old and in office since 2021 -
"is wanted in under an article of the penal code".
She does not specify what crime she is accused of.
However, a Russian security source - cited by the state news agency TASS - stated that both the Estonian Secretary of State, Taimar Peterkop, and the Lithuanian Culture Minister, Simonas Kairys, are also the subject of a search warrant.
They are accused of "destruction and degradation of monuments (in memory) to Soviet soldiers" from World War II.
Several of these monuments, a legacy of the USSR after the Second World War, were dismantled in recent years in the Baltic countries, as a rejection of the Soviet period.
A Russian minority resides in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, three former Soviet republics that are currently members of the European Union and NATO and have tense relations with Moscow.
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