Berlin (EFE) of the European Union (EU).
“We are in close contact to coordinate and exchange information,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on her Twitter account, including in her messages her counterparts from Latvia and Lithuania -Krisjanis Karins and Ingrida Simonyte-, as well as the Finnish Petteri Orpo.
“We are prepared to take additional measures if necessary to protect our borders,” Karins said in a tweet alluding to contacts with his Baltic and Finnish counterparts.
Simonyte, for his part, considered that “the more ‘the second strongest army in the world’ worries about the counteroffensive that has arisen among its ranks, the less work will be left for Ukraine.”
Previously, Kallas had already urged the Estonian population not to travel to Russia, while the three Baltic countries, former Soviet republics, reported a reinforcement of their eastern borders.
Estonia and Latvia share a border with Russia.
Both Estonia and Latvia have a land border with Russia, while Lithuania has it through the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
Finland, a country that completed its entry into NATO last April, has the longest land border with Russia among the Alliance and European Union partners, with a total of 1,340 kilometers.
The Finnish prime minister, who took office this week, warns from his Twitter account of the “deep conflicts” existing between the Russian armed forces and also of the abundant unverified information that is circulating.
“We are closely following the development of the situation,” said Orpo, who described the situation as “serious.”
The Swedish Foreign Minister, Tobias Billström, whose country is awaiting Turkey’s ratification in order to complete its integration into the Atlantic Alliance, also spoke in similar terms on Twitter.
The Baltic and Nordic reactions follow the declaration of rebellion by the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, who last night claimed to have the General Staff of the Russian forces in the city of Rostov, in southern Russia, under control.
Russian President Vladimir Putin described the uprising started last night by Prigozhin as “treason” and assured, in a message to the nation on public television, that those responsible “will pay for it.”