How Baltic nations are working to fortify their border with Russia
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Russian officials have described one of their top priorities at tomorrow's summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin to be normalizing relations with the U.S. on topics beyond Ukraine. |
| 0:11.7 | And that concerns European officials who consider Russia a long-term threat and believe Moscow is producing enough weapons to one-day attack members of NATO, too. |
| 0:22.0 | Nick Schifrin recently sat down with Estonia's defense minister |
| 0:25.3 | about the Baltic nation's increasingly fortified border with Russia, |
| 0:30.0 | a story documented with the help of journalists |
| 0:32.2 | from the University of British Columbia's Global Reporting Program. |
| 0:36.7 | For 16 hours a day, this Lithuanian factory is buzzing. |
| 0:43.3 | Massive machines. |
| 0:46.3 | Alongside workers build barriers by the hundreds. |
| 0:50.3 | They're called dragons teeth, concrete pyramids, each one hundreds of pounds. |
| 0:57.0 | And more than foot-thick metal rod roadblocks, they're called hedgehogs, a storybook name |
| 1:02.8 | for a serious purpose. |
| 1:05.7 | Protection against a Russian invasion, like in Ukraine. |
| 1:10.5 | It's about the defense of our country and the security of our people. |
| 1:15.3 | Donadas Yankauskas is the CEO of Jalmesta. |
| 1:19.0 | Its barriers might be low-tech. |
| 1:23.0 | But they're highly efficient. |
| 1:25.0 | The size, weight, and angle of the dragon's teeth stop enemy tanks in their tracks. |
| 1:30.3 | And in northeast Lithuania, American and Lithuanian troops train fewer than 10 miles from the Belarusian border. |
| 1:37.3 | Assault one! |
| 1:38.3 | Where hundreds of dragon's teeth are already glaring at the ready to stop Russian tanks. |
| 1:45.0 | Lithuania is not alone fearing an attack from neighboring Russia, up the road in eastern |
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