‘The Baltic Sea Should Not Turn Into Putin’s Playground,’ Sweden’s Military Chief Warns Amid Saber-Rattling From the Kremlin
For some observers, the verbal aggression, the official denials, and the cat and mouse games at internationally recognized borders are reminiscent of the time before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Moving under the light of a full moon, Russian patrol boats yesterday removed half of 50 navigational buoys from a border river separating Estonia and Russia. The day before, Russia’s Defense Ministry took down a notice that Russia plans to unilaterally change its Baltic Sea borders with Lithuania and Finland. The draft decree proclaimed: “The state border of the Russian Federation at sea will change.”
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