“There is a model, and we cannot ignore it,” he said, pointing to the recent incidents of suspected sabotage containing electric cables and pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
In the last 18 months, at least 11 cables operated under the Baltic Sea have been damaged. In a recent case, a ship from Russian oil tankers “Shadow Fleet” was accused of damaging Estonia’s central power link in the Gulf of Finland. The Kremlin refused to comment.
Lithuanian President Gittanas Nospita called for sanctions on Russia’s shadow fleet, saying recent events were “major concerns”.
NATO has not directly blamed Russia, but has launched a new patrol mission in the region called Baltic Sentry.
Overall, in about 1.6bn euro (33 1.33bn), the three countries were planned to move to the European Union’s grid, which had widely funded funds provided by the European Union.
The transfer took place within two days, three countries were disconnected from the Russian grid on Saturday morning, working as “Energy Islands” for about 24 hours, and plugged in the European Union grid on Sunday.
Ukrainian Minister of Energy German Guloshenko praised him as an “important event for the whole of Europe”.
