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Infrastructure violations in the Baltic Sea

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  Infrastructure violations in the Baltic Sea Exercise "Unified Response 25" The State Border Guard Service, as well as the anti-terrorist operations unit "Aras" and the Lithuanian military would play the largest role in responding to possible sabotage and detaining suspected ships. The plan was developed after several violations of underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea were recorded in the past six months: at the end of January, the communication cable of the Latvian State Radio and Television Center was damaged, and at Christmas, the cable "Estlink 2" between Finland and Estonia. Communication cables between Sweden and Lithuania, Finland and Germany have previously been damaged. The latest case of suspected sabotage was reported last week by Sweden, which recorded a damage to its and Germany's communication cable east of the island of Gotland. In response to the incidents, NATO launched a new surveillance mission in the Baltic Sea in January, ...

Historic disconnection from BRELL

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 Historic disconnection from BRELL                                             LitPol link/ BNS   This weekend in Lithuania was marked by a historic event – ​​on Saturday morning (2025-02-08  9:00), Lithuania’s power lines were disconnected from the common BRELL system with the Russian Kaliningrad region and Belarus. Latvia and Estonia soon followed suit. After the disconnection, all three countries began operating in isolated mode, and on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Energy, at 2:05 p.m. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia successfully synchronized their power systems with the continental European synchronous area. Before disconnecting from the Russian system, Lithuania’s power transmission lines with the Russian Kaliningrad region will first be disconnected, which will continue to operate in isolation, followed by the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian line...