Ambassador to London Martin Fraser: 'I see a lot of turbulence outside these islands.' Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

Ireland’s fellow European Union states in eastern Europe, including Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, live “in real fear” of Russia and “genuinely” fear invasion, Ireland’s Ambassador to London Martin Fraser has told Irish and British politicians.

Speaking to the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in Surrey, Mr Fraser said: “I don’t think it does Ireland any harm to sometimes think about that because we are in a really febrile place on the Continent of Europe.”

There is “an absolu

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