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Russia has added Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas to a wanted list over her efforts to take down Soviet-era World War II monuments.
“This is just the beginning,” Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Telegram. “The liberators of the world from Nazism and fascism must answer for crimes.” Other officials from Latvia and Lithuania who have supported the remova; of soviet-era monuments are also on the list.
The revelation that Kallas is on the list coincides with mounting Russian-Estonian tensions. On Tuesday, Estonia’s foreign intelligence service issued a new report warning that Moscow has plans to double the number of troops along its borders with the Baltic states and Finland in preparation for possible conflict with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).