Organizations that contributed to this investigation: Re:Baltica (Re:Check), Delfi (Estonia), Delfi (Lithuania)
This summer, misinformation that those in power are trying to drag the Baltic countries into a war against Russia intensified, especially in Lithuania and Estonia. Governments are allegedly considering sending troops to Ukraine, in Lithuania the foreign minister and his family are leaving the country, while Latvia is provoking its eastern neighbour with threats of a nuclear war. In this article, we explain who and how in the Baltic countries are spreading these falsehoods.