{"id":34728,"date":"2025-11-20T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/nato-has-turned-baltic-sea-into-confrontation-zone-moscow\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:38:54","slug":"nato-has-turned-baltic-sea-into-confrontation-zone-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/nato-has-turned-baltic-sea-into-confrontation-zone-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO has turned Baltic Sea into \u2018confrontation zone\u2019 \u2013 Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bloc\u2019s attempts to oust Russia from the region will fail, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

NATO has turned the Baltic Sea into an area of military confrontation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said, lamenting that the bloc is unwilling to discuss de-escalation in the region.<\/p>\n

Her remarks come amid rising anti-Russian rhetoric and military activity among NATO members, especially Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which all border Russia and the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n

Zakharova said the region had long been a space of trade and peaceful cooperation, but that the balance has been dismantled by NATO\u2019s military buildup.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis part of Europe has been turned into a zone of confrontation, which sharply escalated as a result of Finland and Sweden joining the bloc,\u201d<\/em> she told Russian media on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The diplomat pointed to NATO\u2019s 2025 launch of the \u2018Baltic Sentry\u2019 mission, calling it an attempt to impose new navigation rules and turn the sea into the bloc\u2019s \u201cinternal waters\u201d<\/em> \u2013 ambitions she said are doomed to fail. She insisted that Russia will remain a full-fledged member of the \u201cBaltic community.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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NATO claims \u2018Baltic Sentry\u2019 protects critical undersea infrastructure after recent incidents involving energy and communications cables. It has deployed warships, submarines, and aircraft to the region, conducting regular patrols and drills. Moscow views the buildup as a direct threat.<\/p>\n

\u201dIt is very difficult to see any potential for dialogue aimed at reducing tensions. And NATO countries\u2026 are not showing openness to an honest discussion on ways to de-escalate,\u201d<\/em> Zakharova said.<\/p>\n

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have adopted an increasingly confrontational stance toward Russia since the Ukraine conflict escalated in 2022. Officials such as EU Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius, who is a former Lithuanian prime minister, continue to invoke an alleged Russian threat to justify soaring military spending. Kubilius warned this week of a possible conflict with Russia within two to four years.<\/p>\n

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Moscow has rejected claims of hostile intent, denouncing what it calls the West\u2019s \u201creckless militarization.\u201d<\/em> Zakharova stressed that Russia will use all available legal instruments to safeguard its national security and interests.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bloc\u2019s attempts to oust Russia from the region will fail, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said NATO has turned the Baltic Sea into an area of military confrontation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said, lamenting that the bloc is unwilling to discuss de-escalation in the region. Her remarks come amid rising […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:09:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}