Poland, Baltics urge EU to strengthen its eastern border

(ANSA-AFP) - WARSAW, JUN 27 - Poland and the Baltic states urged the European Union this week to strengthen its eastern border, warning in a joint letter to Brussels of a "looming threat" from Russia and Belarus. The four EU members are staunch allies of Ukraine, which has been fighting a fully-fledged Russian invasion for more than two years. They are trenchant critics of Moscow, who they accuse of orchestrating hybrid attacks including "intimidation, instrumentalisation of migrants, sabotage, disinformation, foreign information manipulation and interference, (and) cyber-attacks". In their letter, seen by AFP on Thursday, the leaders of Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania urged the 27-nation EU to "spend more and coordinate on defence initiatives within the EU and with NATO".
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