❗️Another interesting case from Europe’s eastern flank. Latvia says cables are being deliberately cut, surveillance equipment damaged and distribution cabinets sabotaged along its eastern border in an apparent attempt to disrupt the deployment of its new automated border-surveillance system.
❗️Putin says Russia “knows” about alleged violations of the rights of Russian speakers in the Baltic states and has “already developed an approach” to respond. He insists Russia will act only through humanitarian and international-law mechanisms.