The Kremlin is shrugging off concerns over the move and says Moscow must ensure its own “security.” Where have we heard that before?
In reaction to the surprised responses of the Baltic Sea states, the Kremlin on Wednesday issued a statement that seems bound only to make matters worse. Insisting that there’s “nothing political” about the proposed border change,’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in the same breath that the “political situation” has in fact “changed significantly” since the borders were drawn.
“You see how tensions are escalating, what the level of confrontation is, especially in the Baltic region. This requires our agencies to take corresponding steps to ensure security,” he told reporters, using language that sounds awfully similar to Putin’s oft-repeated claim that invadingShortly after his comments, as more and more Western leaders reacted to the news with alarm, the draft decree was suddenly deleted., which was published on a government portal Tuesday.
The Defense Ministry argued that the 1985 measurement used to determine borders relied on outdated charts and thus must be “invalidated.” The border around Russian islands in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland and around Kaliningrad would then be adjusted, though the decree provided no specifics on what the adjustment would entail.
“This is an obvious escalation against NATO and the EU, and must be met with an appropriately firm response,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, in comments to the TT news agency, bluntly said: “Russia can’t unilaterally decide on new borders.”
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