Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda announced that the country’s political parties have reached an agreement to remove the constitutional ban on the deployment of nuclear weapons on Lithuanian territory.
«The geopolitical situation is deteriorating. The Constitution was written in completely different geopolitical circumstances,» Reuters quoted him as saying.
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The head of state stated that there are currently no specific plans to deploy nuclear weapons in Lithuania, but the amendments allow for this to happen if the situation changes in the future.
Lithuania is located on NATO’s eastern flank and borders Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast. Nuclear weapons are also deployed in Belarus. In recent weeks, Russian officials have made statements about the possibility of their use.