Russia "has no intention of changing its borders in the Baltic region" : this is what transpires from a "military-diplomatic source" cited by Russian agencies. " There is no intention to review the depth of the waters, the area economy or the continental shelf near the coast or the line of the Russian state border in the Baltic ,” the source said.
The clarification comes following the news about the document prepared by the Ministry of Defense , which was communicated in the last few hours, aimed at revising the list of points to measure the breadth of the territorial waters off the Russian coast and the islands of Baltic .
«The approval of the project will establish a missing system of straight baselines on the southern part of the Russian islands in the eastern Gulf of Finland near Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk, and will allow their use as internal waters – the document reads -. This will change the maritime border of the Russian state, due to a change in the external borders of the territorial sea."
The draft decree claims that the previous geographical coordinates would have been recorded on the basis of marine navigation maps that were based on 20th century research, which «do not fully correspond to the current geographical situation» and «do not allow determining the external boundary of the waters internal" of Russia.
Meanwhile, the Russian armed forces carried out drone attacks tonight against energy plants in the north-eastern Ukrainian cities of Konotop and Shostka, in the Sumy region. This was announced by the local military administration, quoted by the Kiev media. Local authorities speak of power outages in the affected areas.
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