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Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (left) and President of the rightwing European People's Party (EPP) Manfred Weber give a press conference near the Vaalimaa border checkpoint between Finland and Russia in Virolahti, Finland, May 22, 2024
LEADERS around the Baltic Sea reacted warily today to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region.
In a draft proposal reported by some Russian media, Russia’s Defence Ministry suggests updating the co-ordinates used to measure the strip of territorial waters off its mainland coast and that of its islands in the Baltic Sea.
The existing co-ordinates were approved in 1985, the ministry says; saying, they were “based on small-scale nautical navigation maps” and do not correspond to the “modern geographical situation.”
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
