By the time Operation Pribol ended, two percent of the entire population of the three Baltic states had been deported.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/04/01/zumwalt-putins-deportations-rob-ukraine-of-a-future-generation/

He is optimistic: the “old” Europe works hard on Poland and the Baltic states to set up a land corridor from Belarus, a minor Russian province, to Kaliningrad oblast.

Source: https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2023/02/14/from-lisbon-to-vladivostok-russian-version/

In a rare public criticism, foreign ministers from the Baltic states asked Berlin "to supply Leopard tanks to Ukraine now" on Saturday.

Source: http://www.euronews.com/2023/01/21/ukraine-war-russia-gains-ground-kyiv-ire-at-tank-indecision-moscow-air-defence-drill

Poland and the Baltic states have also been seeking to use the July NATO summit in Vilnius as the occasion for promoting Ukraine’s membership.

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/daniel_larison/2023/04/12/what-to-do-with-ukraine-and-the-loose-and-baggy-monster-that-is-nato/

Some ethnic Russians in the Baltic states have placed flowers at displays of burnt-out Russian tanks seized by Ukrainians, making a gesture of homage and support for Russia's war against Ukraine.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/opinion/columns/guest-editorial-biden-must-follow-roosevelt-s-arsenal-of-democracy-example/article_3ca8cb8c-bded-11ed-9ad8-7ff6a01759a4.html

The key question authors pose is this: against a backdrop of falling birth rates and declining migration from the Baltic states, how is it that the Catholic population has grown at a faster rate than before?

Source: https://sluggerotoole.com/2023/10/03/getting-off-the-hamster-wheel-of-demographic-politics-what-if-weve-already-passed-the-peak-number-of-ni-catholics/

The outcome reveals that those who expressed the highest desire to visit Estonia or the other two Baltic states in the coming years are more to be found among those who have already been here, than those who have not visited, EISA reports.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1609051244/275-000-for-a-youth-website-what-about-the-368-eisa-staff-s-jah-song

The same is underway in the remaining Baltic states, Poland, and along NATO's entire eastern flank.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1609208995/estonia-s-defense-capabilities-dramatically-improved-on-year

The second aspect is an important geostrategic task that the Belarusian-Russian joint military force is supposed to accomplish: ensure the deterrence of the massive onslaught of militarization in the Baltic states and Poland, the analyst noted.

Source: https://eng.belta.by/politics/view/analyst-union-state-counteracts-destructive-activity-of-the-west-157582-2023/