Estonia Makes a claim
Estonia’s border guards on Thursday said their Russian counterparts had removed buoys overnight from the Narva River which separates the two neighbours, amid a dispute over the shared border.
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas called it a “border incident”, as Lithuania and others in the region have a strained relationship with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Tallinn said it was only since the Ukraine war began in February 2022 that Moscow has contested the placement of the floating markers — which are used to keep boats from accidentally straying into foreign waters.
“This year, Russia announced that they would not agree with the locations of about half of the planned” buoys, Estonia’s border guard said in a statement.
“At 3 a.m… border guards detected that the border guards of the Russian Federation had begun to remove floating markers,” it added.
Kallas said the Baltic state had contacted Russia for information.
“This is a border incident, the precise circumstances of which we are clarifying,” she told reporters.
She added that “Russia uses tools related to the border to create fear and anxiety, with which to sow insecurity in our societies. We see a broader pattern of this”.
The incident came on the heels of another regional border spat involving Russia.
Baltic state Lithuania on Wednesday said it had summoned a Russian diplomatic envoy over plans to unilaterally extend Russia’s maritime border into Lithuanian and Finnish waters, warning the move could be a hybrid warfare tactic.
According to a draft Russian defence ministry resolution published on Tuesday, Moscow plans to extend its territorial waters from January 2025 by changing its maritime border in the Baltic Sea with Finland and Lithuania.
The redefined geographical coordinates would see Moscow declaring Finnish and Lithuanian sea areas as Russian.
Russia’s borders in the Kaliningrad region and the Gulf of Finland would be altered, according to the document.
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AFP
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