Bulgaria, Lithuania and Estonia may be next on the chessboard for Vladimir Putin to takeover. Crimea is his, neither the Americans our Europeans scared Putin to leave Crimea alone, so why should he stop there? Bulgaria, Lithuania and Estonia all have sizable Russian populations, and Putin can use the same excuse to annex them as he did Crimea.
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| Putin’s next targets Bulgaria and Lithuania |
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But Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite warned him Vladimir Putin’s annexing of Crimea showed ‘the use of brute force to redraw the map of Europe’, adding: ‘This situation is a direct threat to our regional security.’
The sombre mood was reflected by Bulgarian president, Rosen Plevneliev, who said in London: ‘What about Lithuania? What about Estonia? We do have Russian communities and minorities there.‘Is it possible in the 21st Century that they can call Moscow – and Moscow will send troops and occupy and annex some part of their territory?’
This came amid reports of FSB secret services agents flooding into Transdniestria, a breakaway pro-Moscow region of ex-Soviet state Moldova which shares a border with Ukraine.
In recent days the leadership of the region – where Russian troops are believed to be on the ground – has signaled their wish to be integrated into Russia, like Crimea.