Schools in Baltic states get cancelled after avalanche of Russian bomb threats

A series of bomb threats delivered via email to schools and kindergartens in the Baltic nations this week has resulted in widespread class cancellations across the region.

As reported by TVP World, Lithuania's Chief of Police disclosed that a coordinated mass attack began on October 12, involving hundreds of emails originating from a server located within the European Union with the majority of these messages being in Russian and containing some political content.

Estonia also experienced an influx of threatening spam emails on October 11 night, which prompted the closure of most schools in Tartu, the country's second-largest city the following day.

Despite the fact that a significant number of children in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were advised to stay home due to these bomb threats, Lithuanian Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite assured that there appeared to be no real danger involved. 

Aurelija Vernickaite, a spokesperson for the Lithuanian security agency, believes that the messages observed in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were likely instigated by hostile states, aimed at disrupting and destabilizing institutional operations and the fostering of mistrust.