Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed Tuesday that the Ukrainian military plans to use Latvian territory as a launching ground for its ongoing drone attacks against Russia, an allegation that officials in the Baltic country quickly dismissed.
In a statement, the SVR accused Latvia’s government of agreeing to let Ukraine fire drones from inside the country “despite… fears of becoming a target for retaliatory strikes by Moscow.”
“The primitive Russophobia of Latvia’s current rulers proved stronger than their capacity for critical thinking or their sense of self-preservation,” the agency said.
Russia’s SVR claimed that Ukrainian drone unit troops had already been deployed to five Latvian military bases.
In a thinly-veiled threat, the agency said the locations of Latvia’s “decision-making centers are well-known” to Russia and that its NATO membership “will not protect the accomplices of terrorists from just retribution.”
