BRUSSELS -- Russia's invasion of Ukraine shows that "full-fledged war is an instrument of their policy, and therefore we have to be prepared to confront such a reality," Deividas Matulionis, Lithuania's ambassador to NATO, told Nikkei ahead of the alliance's summit here Thursday.
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