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Lithuania to increase security at critical infrastructure, prime minister says

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VILNIUS, Oct ‌19 (Reuters) - Lithuania will boost ​the security around critical infrastructure sites, ⁠its prime minister said on Monday, following an attempted arson ​attack on a Starlink base station ‌on the outskirts of Vilnius that authorities said was sabotage linked to ⁠Russia.

Lithuanian government and ⁠security officials met to discuss the situation following a suspected drone explosion and Sunday's Starlink incident ‌amid concerns in the region ⁠that the war ‌in Ukraine is spilling ​across NATO's northern borders.

"We agreed to increase the level of ‌preparedness at critical ​infrastructure objects which ⁠are important to the country... ‌we will ⁠devote a larger number of forces and more attention to the ​objects," Prime ‌Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius said on Monday.

(Reporting ⁠by Andrius Sytas, ​editing by Louise Rasmussen ​and Terje Solsvik)

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