Leaders of the Baltic countries in Berlin for the Ukrainian file: "The specter of the past still hangs"

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Olaf Scholz ready to send additional German soldiers to the Baltic countries © AFP

By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow

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The diplomatic ballet continues in the Ukrainian crisis.

While the head of British diplomacy is in Russia, the leaders of the Baltic states, former Soviet republics that have become members of NATO, are in Germany for a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

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This meeting is all the more strategic as NATO's commitment in Poland and the Baltic States is one of the main bones of contention with Russia, which is asking the Atlantic Alliance to reconsider its deployment in the region. .

What are the fears of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia today?

The analysis of

, lecturer at Bordeaux Montaigne University, specialist in the countries of the post-Soviet space.

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• Olaf Scholz

• Latvia

• Estonia

• Lithuania

• Russia

• Ukraine

• Diplomacy

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