Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte and Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal visit the town of Borodianka in Ukraine's Kyiv region in April 2022.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte and her Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal in the town of Borodianka in Ukraine's Kyiv region in April 2022.
  • Lithuania's PM said Europe is boosting defenses in ways that were unthinkable before the Ukraine war.
  • But she told BI that Europe must do more to protect Ukraine and grow its defenses against Russia.
  • Ingrida Šimonytė said European countries should be spending and manufacturing far more.

Many European countries are boosting their defenses in ways that were not on the cards before Russia invaded Ukraine, Lithuania's prime minister told Business Insider.

In fact, Ingrida Šimonytė told BI that European countries "are doing things that were unimaginable" before the conflict.