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Putin delivers on his threat to Finland, cutting off their power supply in harsh retaliation

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Russia has suspended power exports to Finland, Finnish operator Fingrid confirmed earlier Sunday in Australia.

It comes after The Finnish government announced plans to join NATO, and a threatening war of words between the two presidents.

Watch the video above to see NATO doubling down in countries on the Ukraine border

Fingrid’s Senior Vice President of Power System Operations Reima Päivinen said the supply was effectively cut at midnight on Saturday, 8am AEST.

He added that the suspension did not have any impact on the market and that Finland “can cope” with the cut, as Russian electricity amounts to a small fraction of the country’s total consumption.

“We’re also heading into the summer and less electricity will be needed,” Päivinien said, adding he was “confident there won’t be any major problems” next winter.

On Friday, Fingrid said Russia was suspending power exports due to problems in receiving payments.

The move comes as the Finnish government is planning to issue a second white paper on Sunday proposing that the country joins NATO, Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told reporters on Thursday.

The proposal would then be put into a parliamentary vote with a plenary scheduled for Monday morning.

Russia’s foreign ministry said Finland’s possible accession to NATO marked a “radical change in the country’s foreign policy” and warned of retaliatory countermeasures.

Finland shares an 830-mile border with Russia and its accession would mean that Russia would share a border with a country that is formally aligned with the US.

“Russia will be forced to take retaliatory steps, both of a military-technical and other nature, in order to stop the threats to its national security that arise in this regard,” it said.

In late April, Gazprom said it fully halted supplies to Polish gas company PGNiG and Bulgaria’s Bulgargaz after they refused to meet a demand by Moscow to pay in rubles rather than euros or dollars.

More NATO backlash

Russia is not the only country looking negatively upon the Scandinavian plans to join NATO.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday he is not looking at Finland’s and Sweden’s moves to join NATO “positively,” accusing both counties of housing Kurdish “terrorist organisations.”

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde said Saturday she now expects to have a bilateral meeting with her Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

Çavuşoğlu has said Ankara’s stance is clear: “Those countries should not support PKK/YPG terrorist groups,” according to the Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu on Saturday.

The PKK, or Kurdistan Worker’s Party, which seeks an independent state in Turkey, has been in an armed struggle with Turkey for decades and has been designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Following Saturday’s informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Berlin, Linde said in comments to Swedish broadcaster SVT that “we have a very good and constructive relationship.”


Russia has suspended power exports to Finland, Finnish operator Fingrid confirmed earlier Sunday in Australia.

It comes after The Finnish government announced plans to join NATO, and a threatening war of words between the two presidents.

Watch the video above to see NATO doubling down in countries on the Ukraine border

Fingrid’s Senior Vice President of Power System Operations Reima Päivinen said the supply was effectively cut at midnight on Saturday, 8am AEST.

He added that the suspension did not have any impact on the market and that Finland “can cope” with the cut, as Russian electricity amounts to a small fraction of the country’s total consumption.

“We’re also heading into the summer and less electricity will be needed,” Päivinien said, adding he was “confident there won’t be any major problems” next winter.

On Friday, Fingrid said Russia was suspending power exports due to problems in receiving payments.

The move comes as the Finnish government is planning to issue a second white paper on Sunday proposing that the country joins NATO, Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told reporters on Thursday.

The proposal would then be put into a parliamentary vote with a plenary scheduled for Monday morning.

Russia’s foreign ministry said Finland’s possible accession to NATO marked a “radical change in the country’s foreign policy” and warned of retaliatory countermeasures.

Finland shares an 830-mile border with Russia and its accession would mean that Russia would share a border with a country that is formally aligned with the US.

“Russia will be forced to take retaliatory steps, both of a military-technical and other nature, in order to stop the threats to its national security that arise in this regard,” it said.

In late April, Gazprom said it fully halted supplies to Polish gas company PGNiG and Bulgaria’s Bulgargaz after they refused to meet a demand by Moscow to pay in rubles rather than euros or dollars.

More NATO backlash

Russia is not the only country looking negatively upon the Scandinavian plans to join NATO.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday he is not looking at Finland’s and Sweden’s moves to join NATO “positively,” accusing both counties of housing Kurdish “terrorist organisations.”

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde said Saturday she now expects to have a bilateral meeting with her Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

Çavuşoğlu has said Ankara’s stance is clear: “Those countries should not support PKK/YPG terrorist groups,” according to the Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu on Saturday.

The PKK, or Kurdistan Worker’s Party, which seeks an independent state in Turkey, has been in an armed struggle with Turkey for decades and has been designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Following Saturday’s informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Berlin, Linde said in comments to Swedish broadcaster SVT that “we have a very good and constructive relationship.”

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