Baltic stations are excluded from Russia and join EU EWEL resid star-news.press/wp

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are now excluded from the Russian electricity network and the European Union network was joined.

The plans for the move – which are in the works since 2007. years – were considered important for European security and are transferred after full invasion in Ukraine in Russia in Ukraine in 2022. years.

“Today, history is performed,” the EU Ursula Von der Leyen said the ceremony in Lithuania capital. “This is freedom, freedom from threats, freedom from blackmail.”

The Polish President Andrzej Duda praised him as “a really symbolic moment” which region would make “safer and elastic”.

“It is the last step towards emancipation from the post-soviet sphere of addiction,” he added.

The so-called Brell Power Grid – which marks Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania – is fully controlled completely by Moscow and has long seen as vulnerability for three Baltic states.

NATO members have not purchased electricity from Russia from Russia from 2022. years, but their relationship with Brell Network left them depending on the energy flow moscow.

In his speech, Mrs. Der Leyen warned that NATO must remain awake possible Russian retaliation.

By pointing out the recent peppy sabotage incidents involving electricity and pipeline cables in the Baltic Sea, she said “there is a form, and we can’t ignore him.”

In the last 18 months, at least 11 cables on the Baltic Sea have been damaged. In a recent case, A ship from the Russian fleet “Shadow Fleet” oil oil is charged with damages the main link in Estonia in the Gulf of Finland. Kremlin refused to comment.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauzet called for sanctions about the Russian shade fleet, saying that recent incidents were “great concerns”.

NATO has not yet accused Russia, but responded by launching a new patrol mission of the region Baltic Sentry.

In total, about 1.6 billion euros (£ 1.33 billion) have been invested in the project to transfer three nations to the EU network, with the funds to a large extent of the EU.

The transition took place over two days, With three nations that can be excluded from the Russian network on Saturday morningwhich act as “Energy Island” for about 24 hours, and on Sundays joining the EU.

Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushenchen welcomed him as a “significant event for the whole of Europe”.