{"id":44572,"date":"2022-08-13T14:11:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44572"},"modified":"2022-08-13T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:12:04","slug":"estonia-finland-plan-to-close-baltic-sea-to-russian-warships-after-finland-joins-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44572","title":{"rendered":"Estonia, Finland plan to close Baltic Sea to Russian warships after Finland joins NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estonia, Finland plan to close Baltic Sea to Russian warships after Finland joins NATO ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hanno Pevkur .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 13 . August . 2022 | World News .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said in an interview with the newspaper\u00a0Iltalehti\u00a0that Estonia and Finland have agreed to unify their coastal defense after Finland becomes a member of NATO.\u00a0In addition, it is planned to close the Baltic Sea to Russian warships.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The integration of anti-missile defenses of Finland and Estonia will allow closing the Gulf of Finland to Russian warships.&nbsp;The Baltic Sea, with the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, will become the internal sea of \u200b\u200bthe alliance,&#8221; Pevkur said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, the range of the missile is 290 kilometers.&nbsp;The Estonians can direct their missile fire to exactly any place in the Gulf of Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The minister noted that the parties agreed on this on August 11, when Pevkur met in Helsinki with the head of the Finnish Defense Ministry, Antti Kaikkonen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweden and Finland officially applied for NATO membership on May 18.&nbsp;This decision was prompted by Russia&#8217;s full-scale war against Ukraine, which began on February 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey, a longtime member of the alliance, has objected to their membership bids, criticizing the countries for supporting &#8220;terrorist groups&#8221;.&nbsp;After in-depth negotiations between the countries, Turkey declared that it would support the membership of Sweden and Finland in NATO at the summit in Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 29, NATO leaders\u00a0officially invited\u00a0Finland and Sweden to join the Alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Senate has supported a resolution on the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, thereby agreeing to President Joe Biden&#8217;s proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia, Finland plan to close Baltic Sea to Russian warships after Finland joins NATO , Hanno Pevkur . 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