On Tuesday, he was briefed by the country's intelligence institutions on the latest assessment of threats to national security.
"They have remained unchanged for the past several years, but I would like to refrain from commenting on the methods, impacts and things like that. These are threats from Russia, threats from China, and also threats that are now emerging from Belarus and Russia's ongoing absorption," he told BNS. "The threat sources are the same."
Lithuania's counterintelligence is operating effectively, Kasciunas says, adding that it's ready to counteract attempts by "external actors", aimed at the international processes in the country.
"The impression is that Lithuania has a strong counterintelligence system, it operates well and controls attempts by external actors to influence internal processes, and that situation is visible and being taken very seriously," Kasciunas said.
In his words, currently, in the context of Russia's invasion into Ukraine, there's a need to bolster the country's security instruments.
"We now became a West Berlin during the Cold War when in fact we need to bolster allied forward presence forces, national security and combat power to be stronger and able to deter enemies from any attempts to test us," the CNSD chairman said.
Lithuania's State Security Department and the Second Investigation Department under the Ministry of National Defense are set to present their annual assessment of threats to national security in early March. Usually, these reports mainly focus on Russia, Belarus and China.