With a painful history as a Kremlin satellite and a Russian-speaking minority of its own, Lithuania can lay claim to a special hearing on how to handle cross-border aggression from Russia. So when Raimonda Murmokaitė, the Baltic state's representative at the UN, declared that the West had been as passive as the "proverbial frog" that does not know to jump out of a can of boiling water, diplomats at the special session of the Security Council had every reason to squirm in their seats.
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The Yamal, a Ropucha-class landing ship of the Russian Navy, fires rockets during Navy Day celebrations in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on July 27, 2014.
