Baltic states think Russia is laying the groundwork for looming 'kinetic operations'

"Prominent Russian politicians have challenged Lithuania's right to exist, and television and social-media campaigns have charged that Vilnius is mistreating ethnic Russians or laid claim to parts of Lithuania, which does not border Russia but abuts Kaliningrad, a Russian semi-exclave on the Baltic Sea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested or justified Russian action in the past on the basis of defending Russian speakers abroad, which some of those groups have embraced."