In a dusty workshop in northern Lithuania, a dozen men are transforming hundreds of wheel rims into potbelly stoves to warm Ukrainians huddled in trenches and bomb shelters. As the sparks subside, one welder marks the countertop: 36 made that day. Hours later, they’ve reached 60. People from across Lithuania send old wheel rims to…
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) In a dusty workshop in northern Lithuania, a dozen men are transforming hundreds of wheel rims into potbelly stoves to warm Ukrainians huddled in trenches and bomb shelters. As the sparks subside, one welder marks the countertop: 36 made that day.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine last February, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia three states on NATO’s eastern flank scarred by decades of Soviet-era occupation have been among the top donors to Kyiv