The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the removal of 25 Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from Russia was “unacceptable.
FILE - Men fish near the fortresses of Narva, left, in Estonia, and Ivangorod, right, in Russia , on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. ” BRUSSELS — Europe an Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday called the removal of Estonian buoys by Russia n border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from Russia “unacceptable,” and demanded an explanation from Moscow and the immediate return of the orange floating devices.
Borrell said the incident “is part of a broader pattern of provocative behavior and hybrid actions by Russia.”“We treat this as a provocative border incident,” the Foreign Ministry in Tallinn said Thursday. Every year, the marking of the shipping routes was rechecked because “the riverbed changes over time,” said Eerik Purgel, the local Estonian Border Guard head. On May 13, the first 50 buoys were installed. However 25 of them were removed by their Russian counterparts early in the morning 10 days later, he added.
The draft proposal was published on an official Russian government website for draft legislation but disappeared hours after it was posted on Wednesday. It wasn’t immediately clear why.
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