Baltic states unplug from Russia and join
EU power grid
Posted By: snakeoil, 2/9/2025 12:52:51 PM
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are now unplugged from Russia's electricity grid and have joined the European Union's network. Plans for the move - which have been in the works since 2007 - were seen as essential for European security and had been brought brought forward after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. "Today, history is made," EU chief Ursula von der Leyen told a ceremony in Lithuania's capital. "This is freedom, freedom from threats, freedom from blackmail."
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Good news. If the money flow into Russia and Ukraine can be stopped the war will have to end.