This weekend, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are connected to the European Union and will no longer depend on Russian electricity.
Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn are impatient to cut the electric cables that still connect Russia.
The three Baltic countries formerly under Soviet domination are connected this weekend via Poland to the European electrical system.
Balts no longer buy neither Russian gas nor electricity, but still depend for a few hours of Moscow for the regulation of their frequency.
Gitanas Nausėda, President of Lithuania: “This is the last element of our dependence on the Russian or Belarusian energy system … We have stopped buying any type of energy. We have stopped buying all types of energy resources in Russia. It was our response to the war in Ukraine, which broke out in February 2022. ”
In Vilnius, a giant clock displays the countdown of the time when the electric cables will be cut.
Ursula von der Leyen is expected to attend the ceremony.
Note that the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad will now work in island mode, unrelated to Russia.
