From trolling Putin to crowdfunding hi-tech anti-missile radars, for the people of Lithuania, Russia’s attempts to claw back former Soviet land are personal — and they're doing everything they can to help Ukraine win.
"The war started at 5:00 in the morning. Our campaign started at 7:00, and at 12:00, we already had 1,500 apartments ready all over Lithuania," he said.
"We alone brought 600 generators to Ukraine. It means a lot to the people to help get them warm, give them an opportunity to charge their phones; to live as normal life as possible under those conditions they are living in," he told the ABC. It became the first European Union nation to suspend all gas imports from Russia, having diversified its energy supplies over the past decade in a bid to end its reliance on Russia.
"It's not an act of war when you're targeting civilians; when you're targeting children; when you're targeting women and the elderly." History has a lot to do with why Lithuanians have given generously to Ukraine at both an individual and government level. "I would not have imagined how his words and opinion, how true it would ring still, 30 years after our independence," he said.
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