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Vilnius Hands Diplomatic Note to Russian Ambassador Over Incident in Baltic Sea

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Lithuanian Foreign Ministry handed on Wednesday a diplomatic note to Russian Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov, expressing concern over an incident in the Baltic Sea allegedly involving the Russian Navy, the ministry said in a statement.

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VILNIUS (Sputnik) — According to Vilnius, on October 10 the Russian warships “demanded civilian ships in the exclusive economic zone of Lithuania to change course.” The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry called on Moscow "to ensure that similar incidents do not happen again in the future."

“On 12 October, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned the Ambassador of Russia to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov who received a diplomatic note that expressed concerns over repeated violations by the Russian Navy of the rights and freedoms of the sovereign Republic of Lithuania and other states in the exclusive economic zone of Lithuania in the Baltic Sea,” the statement read.

The ministry reiterated concerns over deployment of the Iskander-M ballistic missile system in Russia's Kaliningrad region and flights of Russian planes over the Baltic Sea.

Responding to various similar accusations by Lithuania in the past weeks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russian aircraft and warships did not violate international law and did not cross the Baltic states’ borders.

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