Original sentence: Also the annals affirm the alliance and united foreign policy of Polotsk and Lithuania for decades.For example, the Chronicle of Novgorod informs about "Izyaslav had been set to be Knyaz in Luki and covered Novgorod from the Lithuanians" in 1198 when Luki is situated on the east from Polotsk
Edited sentence: At some point between 1180 and 1183 the situation began to change, and the Lithuanians started to organize sustainable military raids on the Slavic provinces, raiding the Principality of Polotsk as well as Pskov, and even threatening Novgorod.Pagan Lithuanians initially paid tribute to Polotsk, but they soon grew in strength and organized their own small-scale raids.The sudden spark of military raids marked consolidation of the Lithuanian lands in Aukštaitija