Russian state agency RIA Novosti published a commentary titled “Russia faces another special military operation.

Russian state agency RIA Novosti published a commentary titled “Russia faces another special military operation. It will be very short,” focused on Lithuania. The author portrays potential Western nuclear deployments in Lithuania as a threat that could force Moscow to act, argues a military conflict in the Baltics would be brief due to geography, and explicitly raises the possibility of Russia using nuclear-armed missiles without deploying ground forces, calling such an outcome “lightning-fast.”