Latest Russian reports say there’s no plan to alter Baltic Sea borders, after a draft Defense Ministry decree on the issue. Finland said it wasn’t consulted, Lithuania said Moscow was trying to spread doubt.
Russian media including Interfax on Wednesday cited a draft Defense Ministry decree as proposing changes to the borders of Russian territorial waters in the Baltic Sea.
“The passage of the state border of the Russian Federation at sea will change,” a summary of the draft decree said.
According to the ministry, the change was to account for a 1985 Soviet measurement using dated cartographical coordinates. Waters around the exclave of Kaliningrad, between Poland and Lithuania, could be affected.
It was not immediately clear from the decree exactly how the border would be adjusted or whether consultations had taken place with other countries.