Official supply: “The coldest place within the universe is thought” – 2024-05-26 05:31:27

Within the japanese Gulf of Finland lies the tiny island of Jähi. Simply over 200 meters lengthy, Jähi belongs virtually completely to Finland. The border line between Finland and Russia runs by means of the southeast nook of the island.

On the island of Jähi, there’s a concrete boundary marker quantity 12, which should face up to the storms of the Gulf of Finland and the harshness of winter.

This week, a significant public and political debate arose when it emerged that the Russian Ministry of Protection proposed in its draft choice to maneuver the ocean borders of the Baltic Sea with a unilateral declaration.

A number of Russian media reported late on Tuesday a few doc revealed on the web site of the Russian authorities, in accordance with which the Russian Ministry of Protection proposes to the federal government the switch of maritime borders within the Baltic Sea within the neighborhood of Finland and Lithuania.

The Jähi island shared by Finland and Russia with its coordinates is talked about within the proposal discovered on the Russian authorities’s web site. Nonetheless, the doc was later faraway from the general public area.

There’s border marker quantity 12 on Jähi island. The archive picture is from 2016. Juha Hovilainen

From Finland’s viewpoint, there could also be an issue with Jähi, as a result of the Jähi border level reported by Russia seems to be situated roughly 45 meters on the Finnish facet in accordance with the coordinate system utilized by Russia, when in comparison with the Finnish map coordinate system.

Finland has a transparent view on the border challenge of Jähi Island.

– From the viewpoint of Finland and the Finnish Border Guard, the coordinate factors of the ocean border within the japanese Gulf of Finland, i.e. the border between Finland and Russia, are very clear, and it could not be potential to alter them unilaterally by the opposite social gathering to the settlement, says the pinnacle of the maritime safety unit of the Finnish Border Guard Mikko Simola.

Or as one other official supply describes it: “The coldest place within the universe is thought.”

There could also be a danger of errors and misinterpretation within the new coordinate factors unilaterally given by Russia, as a result of Russia makes use of a distinct coordinate system than Finland.

A political recreation transfer?

Iltalehti requested Simola, the pinnacle of the Border Guard’s maritime safety unit, whether or not the Russian doc launch is a political or a technical recreation transfer.

– I am not going to take a position about Russia’s intentions. From the angle of the Finnish Border Guard, Finland’s borders each on land and at sea are fully clear, and based mostly on them, we monitor Finland’s border safety on land, sea and air, and on the identical time preserve management of Finland’s territorial integrity day by day, says Simola.

One other official supply says that Russia’s actions “look like technical, however while you take a look at Russia’s actions extra broadly, the matter have to be taken severely.”

This week there has additionally been information concerning the border incident that occurred in Estonia, when the Russian border authorities had gone the evening earlier than Thursday to take away the buoys marking the channel positioned within the Estonian waters on the Narva river on the border between Estonia and Russia.

In response to specialists, Russia desires to trigger tensions within the Gulf of Finland with the hybrid operation and create cracks within the present safety order.

With the maritime border doc and the switch of the Narvajoki buoys, Russia has been capable of take a look at how Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and NATO react.

Commander performing as deputy commander of the Gulf of Finland Coast Guard Mikko Hirvi says the border scenario within the Gulf of Finland is calm.

– The border scenario could be very calm and such huge deviations haven’t been detected in our operational actions on this scenario, says Hirvi.