The number of Russian-speaking people in Lithuania is growing, said to be due to refugees from Ukraine and labor migrants from Central Asian countries such as Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The director of Lithuania's Department for National Minorities has admitted that it is difficult to "de-Russify" society, as most of the new arrivals speak Russian.

In the last three years, the number of Central Asian immigrants to Lithuania has increased 14 times. The head of the Lithuanian State Security Department, Dariusz Jaunishkis, said that there are no grounds for serious concerns at the moment, but that anti-Western sentiment is growing.

Germany will deploy its troops outside its borders for the first time since World War II.