Baltic nations switch off Russian power grid in ‘victory for freedom’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/08/baltic-nations-switch-off-russian-power-grid/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    Three [Baltic states](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/baltic-region/) have cut ties with Russia’s power grid to join the European Union’s network in “a victory for freedom.”

    [Estonia](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/16/russia-mysterious-blimps-sow-fear-and-confusion-nato-border/), Latvia and Lithuania – all former Soviet republics now in the European Union and Nato – had wanted to block Russia’s ability to geopolitically blackmail them via the electricity system.

    Zygimantas Vaiciunas, Lithuania’s energy minister, told AFP on Saturday: “We have removed any theoretical possibility of Russia using energy [grid] control as a weapon.”

    Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief and Estonia’s former prime minister, hailed the grid switch as “a victory for freedom and European unity”.

    Mr Vaiciunas said the Baltic states had completed the disconnection process at 9.09 local time (07.09 GMT) on Saturday.

    “We have been waiting for this moment for a long time,” he told reporters, after speaking with his Estonian and Latvian counterparts.

    “The energy system of the Baltic states is finally in our own hands. We are in control,” he added of the “historic” moment.

    **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/08/baltic-nations-switch-off-russian-power-grid/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/08/baltic-nations-switch-off-russian-power-grid/)

  6. Awesome!

    I hope we do the same to republican states bordering Canada this coming Sunday 🙂

  7. Democracies can only be free if they are not dependent on tyrannical regimes for anything. Every democracy needs to divest itself from anything coming from a tyrannical regime.

  8. It is truly mind boggling to think about the damage Putin has done to Russia and how it will probably take a generation to recover what has been lost for the people of Russia.

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