The West must send a strong message to Russia to deter it from invading Ukraine, including cutting Russia off from the SWIFT payment system, sanctioning the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and strengthening NATO's eastern flank, Latvia said on Tuesday.
Hours before U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are due to discuss Ukraine in a, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs told Reuters: "Russia needs to know in advance what the economic price tag is."
"Maybe astrology or some other more precise science needs to be involved. But I do believe that Ukraine for Russia and President Putin is an essential part of the kind of vision of a great Russia," Rinkēvičs said in an interview in London. The NATO military alliance should also boost its presence across Eastern Europe to deter Putin and individual NATO allies might provide arms to Ukraine, Rinkēvičs said.
NATO has in recent years strengthened its presence in the Baltic states and across Eastern Europe, a step that has dismayed the Kremlin.
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