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2025-01-15 Europe
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NATO plans to significantly increase its military presence in the Baltics
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] NATO countries intend to radically increase their military presence in the Baltic Sea. This was stated by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on January 14.
"The growing Russian aggression forces us to make decisions that are unprecedented in some senses. In this case, we are talking about a radically strengthened NATO presence in the Baltic Sea," Tusk told journalists after the end of the NATO summit of the North Atlantic Alliance in the Baltic region.
The Polish Prime Minister recalled the presence of extensive underwater and surface infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.
Which countries and in what form will strengthen their military presence in the region has not yet been decided, Tusk clarified, adding that the Polish Navy has limited capabilities.
He clarified that all participants in the meeting want to have the right to control ships in the neutral waters of the Baltic, and, if necessary, to detain ships.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, at the end of December 2024, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte promised to urgently consider the issue of deploying the Navy Policing mission in the Baltic Sea to protect infrastructure facilities in the region. According to Finnish media, the alliance will send about 10 ships to the Baltic to protect underwater cables.
Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported on January 14 that a submarine cable in the Baltic Sea connecting Sweden, Lithuania, Germany and Finland had been damaged. Four other cables had previously been reported damaged.
The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov emphasized that accusations of Russia's involvement in damaging cables in the Baltic Sea are groundless and absurd. According to the Kremlin representative, such statements are ridiculous against the background of the lack of reaction to Ukraine's subversive activities in the Baltic Sea. It is the Kiev regime that prefers to commit acts of sabotage and terrorism, Peskov noted and recalled the blowing up of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
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NATO Wants to Monitor Ships in Baltic Neutral Waters, Tusk Says
NATO countries want to give themselves the right to control ships in the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, January 14.
Such control is not possible now, and this is the "biggest problem", but NATO countries have agreed to work on "legal possibilities", Tusk told reporters after the end of the NATO Baltic summit in Helsinki.
"All participants in the meeting and NATO Secretary General [ Mark Rutte ] agreed that protection is needed not only in territorial waters, but also that it will be necessary to control ships outside territorial waters, so to speak, in the middle of the Baltic," said the Polish prime minister.
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