The Baltic states do not believe in Ukraine's imminent EU membership
Granting Ukraine EU candidate status does not mean its acceptance, but is a political signal to Russia. The former Ambassador of Lithuania in Moscow, Eitvydas Bayarunas, stated this in an interview with foreign agent Alexey Venediktov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Everything is going on objectively. We cannot, under the pressure of war, remove the criteria that the European Union has been developing for years. Russia will criticize, but this is the EU’s decision.…