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Russia has decided to declare as its territorial waters a part to the east of the Gulf of Finland, not far from the cities of Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk near the Kaliningrad region
Moscow’s unilateral move against NATO. There Russia has in fact decided to expand the country’s territorial waters in the Baltic Sea near the border with Lithuania and Finland. According to the Moscow Times, the news comes from a draft government decree published online. According to the Ministry of Defense dossier, Russia has decided to declare as its territorial waters a part to the east of the Gulf of Finland, not far from the cities of Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk near the Kaliningrad region.
The unilateral decision thus brings about a change in the geographical coordinates that determine the position of the lines that allow the extension of the territorial sea of the Russian Federation to be identified and measured, as well as the area adjacent to the coast and islands. Along the border with Finland, which recently joined the Atlantic Alliance, Fly it targeted the area of the islands of Jahi, Sommers, Holland, Rodsher, Maly Tyuters, Vigrund, but above all the northern entrance area of the Narva river. With Lithuania, however, the areas subject to the review are the Curonian Spit, the areas of Cape Taran, Cape south of Cape Taran and the Baltic Spit.
Officially, ministry sources explain that the current coordinates, established by a 1985 USSR decree, “do not fully correspond to the current situation and that the current points are based on small-scale marine navigation maps” and that these maps, dating back to the ’50, “would not allow us to determine the exact border of the Russia“.
The variation proposed by the Ministry of Defense Russian, arrives in a heated climate in the relationship between Russia and NATO. Yesterday the Federation announced the start of the first maneuvers that will lead to an atomic test not far from the borders with Ukraine. For weeks, Moscow has launched a counter-offensive along the Kharkiv front while the back and forth between Kiev and the Western bloc continues over the shipment of new weapons and above all the possibility that the Ukrainian army will use NATO supplies to hit supply lines on Russian territory. A red line that the Biden administration has set since the early stages of the conflict.
The unilateral choice to review the borders in the Kaliningrad area reignites the tug-of-war with NATO after the entry of Finland and Sweden into the Alliance. But above all it forces NATO to shift its attention further north than the Ukrainian quadrant. For some time the Baltic area has been at the center of continuous aerial interceptions between Moscow’s fighters and those of the West. Not only. The long border that separates Russia and Finland has long been at the center of a tug of war between Helsinki and Fly. At the beginning of March, the Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo, explained how the Kremlin was about to deploy troops and advanced military systems not far from the border.
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