NATO's inner sea. Finland and Estonia will close the Baltic Sea for Russian ships

According to Estonia's Defense Minister Hanno Pevkura, this will be possible after Finland's accession to NATO and combining the coastal protection systems of the two states. After Finland's accession to NATO Helsinki and Tallin, they plan to combine coastal defense systems, which will completely close access to the Baltic Sea for the Russian Federation ships. This was stated in an interview with the Finnish newspaper by Iltalehti. "We need to integrate our coastal defense.

The range of Estonian and Finnish missiles exceeds the width of the Gulf of Finnish. This means that we unite ours about [missile defense] and share with each other with all the information," - in particular, said Pokur. According to him, after the accession of Sweden and Finland to the North Atlantic Alliance, the Baltic Sea will actually become a "NATO inner Sea", which will significantly change the situation compared to today. The maximum width of the Gulf is 130 km.

According to the Finnish edition, in the fall of 2021, Estonia decided to buy Israeli Blue Spear missiles to combat marine purposes. The rocket flight range is 290 km. Thus, Estonians can target their rocket fire anywhere in the Gulf of Finnish. In arms of the Naval Forces of Finland, in turn is a rocket system to defeat the maritime goals of the MTO 85m with a range of more than 100 km.

It is equipped with a search radar head and Finns are able to control the water area to the northern coast of Estonia. As it is noted, the Finns and Estonians planned a common coast defense in the 1930s, but at that time the project was never implemented. As Makuk added, the headquarters of the new NATO new division will be created in Estonia in the near future. It will consist of five crews. Estonia distinguishes two brigades, one more - the United Kingdom.

If necessary, the Allies will send two more crews to the region. We will remind, since August 18 Estonia has closed entry for Russians with Schengen visas. The decision does not affect Russian diplomats and their families, as well as international trade workers. And students from the Russian Federation who did not have time to finish their studies will allow to extend permission for one year. Earlier, we wrote that Finland and Sweden to NATO were ratified in the United States.