Baltic states that make historical change outside the Russian power

Brell’s so -called power grid, which represents Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, is almost completely controlled by Moscow and for a long time has been seen as a vulnerability for former Soviet Republics, which are now NATO members .

Although none of them has bought Electricity from Russia since 2022, its connection with the Brell grid left them depending on Moscow for energy flow.

After disconnecting from Saturday morning, the three countries have now entered “isolated mode”, surviving only in their own power for 24 hours, before joining the European network through Poland on Sunday.

“Now we are eliminating Russia’s ability to use the electrical system as a tool of geopolitical blackmail,” said the AFP news agency of the AFP, Lithuania Energy Minister.

“It is the culmination of efforts for more than 10 years or 20 years, to reduce that energy dependence,” said Professor David Smith of the Baltic Research Unit of the University of Glasgow to the BBC.

“When the Baltic states joined the EU and NATO, they all talked about that they were an island of energy that still depended on that joint electricity network with Belarus and Russia,” Smith said. “That has been completely broken now.”