Vilnius, Lithuania (Reuters) -Astonia, Latvia and Lithuania said on Sunday that they have successfully compatible with the European Continental Power Grid a day after separating decades -old energy ties from Russia and Belarus. –
For many years, the complex switch away from their former Soviet Empire Overlord’s grid has been designed to connect the three Baltic countries more closely with the European Union and promote the region’s energy safety.
“We did it!” Latin President Edgers Rinkux said in a post on Social Media X.
After the Soviet Union was disconnected from the IPS/UPS network in the 1950s on Saturday, and now Russia -administered, Baltic Nations cut more voltage transmission lines across the border in eastern Latvia, Russian The border handes the pieces of sliced ​​wire to enthusiastic passers -by.
Kaja Kalas, the head of the European Union’s foreign policy, himself, a Estonian, described the switch earlier this week as a “victory for independence and the European Union.”
The Baltic C -Region is on high alert after the closure of the power cable, telecom links and gas pipeline between Baltic and Sweden or Finland. It was believed that all the Russians were caused by anchors dragging anchors as well as after the invasion of Ukraine. Russia has denied any involvement.
Poland and Baltics deployed naval assets, elite police units and helicopters when the Andrea Power link from Finland was damaged in Estonia in December, while Lithuania’s army launched exercises to protect overland connection from Poland –
Analysts say that when energy prices rise, maximum loss of links since the invasion of Ukraine cannot be seen at these levels.
The IPS/UPS Grid was the last rest of the link to Russia for all three countries, which was born again in the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and in 2004 the European Union and the European Union. Was joined in NATO.
After the Moscow’s attack on Ukraine in 2022, three strict supporters of Kiev stopped purchase power from Russia, but relied on the Russian grid to control the frequency and to stabilize networks to avoid closure.
