The FSB border service called the actions of the West a threat to the Baltic region.

The actions of Russia's Western neighbors in the Baltic against the Russian Federation pose a security threat to the entire region, Vladimir Kulishov, first deputy director and head of the border guard service of the FSB of Russia, said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta on May 27.

"We believe that such behavior by our Western neighbors poses a threat to security in the Baltic region," he said.

Kulishov clarified that European countries are attempting to restrict Russia's freedom of navigation in the Baltic Sea, as well as create obstacles to the country's maritime economic activity in the region.

"Almost every day we record reconnaissance flights, as well as the presence of warships of NATO member countries and their partners near the state border of the Russian Federation. <...> In the Arctic, northwestern and Far Eastern directions, as well as in the airspace over the waters of the Black and Baltic Seas," he added.

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