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A drone alert blasted on my phone – we had to take shelter. This is the new reality on Nato’s eastern flank

In Lithuania, and throughout the Baltic, we have lived for years with Russian hostility – but the tech now means that London, Berlin and Paris are just as vulnerable, says Baltic security expert Linas Kojala

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