2024-05-24 19:47:51
Based on Tallinn, it was solely after the conflict in Ukraine that started in February 2022 that Moscow started to dispute the location of floating markers – that are used to stop ships from unintentionally straying into international waters.
“This yr, Russia has introduced that it’s going to not settle for about half of the deliberate” areas of the buoys, Estonia’s border guard stated in a press release.
“3 o’clock within the morning… the border guards recorded that the border guards of the Russian Federation began to take away the floating markers,” it added.
Ok. Kallas stated that the Baltic state turned to Russia for data. “This can be a border incident, the precise circumstances of which we’re investigating,” she advised reporters, including that “Russia is utilizing border-related measures to instill concern and anxiousness to instil a way of insecurity in our societies. We’re seeing a broader sample of that.”
The incident adopted one other regional border battle during which Russia was concerned.
Lithuania stated on Wednesday it had summoned Russia’s diplomatic envoy over plans to unilaterally prolong Russia’s maritime border into Lithuanian and Finnish waters, warning that the transfer might be a hybrid warfare tactic.
Based on the draft decision of the Russian Ministry of Protection printed on Tuesday (and canceled on Wednesday – ed.), Moscow plans to develop its territorial waters from January 2025 by altering its maritime border within the Baltic Sea with Finland and Lithuania.
Based on the newly decided geographical coordinates, Moscow would declare the ocean areas of Finland and Lithuania to be Russian. The doc states that Russia’s borders within the Kaliningrad area and the Gulf of Finland could be modified.
2024-05-24 19:47:51