Shafaq News/ Estonia, Latvia, and
Lithuania successfully connected their electrical systems to the European
continental grid on Sunday, a day after severing energy ties that had lasted
for decades with Russia and Belarus.

The complex shift away from the
former Soviet power grid had been in the works for several years and aims to
more closely integrate the Baltic States with the European Union while
enhancing regional energy security.

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs
celebrated the achievement in a post on X, stating, “We did it!”

A few days earlier, EU foreign
policy chief, Estonia’s Kaja Kallas, hailed the transformation as “a
victory for freedom and European unity.”

The three countries, strong
supporters of Kyiv, stopped purchasing energy from Russia following Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine in 2022 but continued relying on the Russian grid to manage
frequency and stabilize their networks, to avoid power outages.