Russia has cut off its electricity supply to Finland as threatened, a spokesperson for the Finnish power grid. RAO Nordic, the Russian state-owned power company responsible for supplying electricity to Scandinavian countries, said it would cut off Finland’s electricity at 1 am today due to missed payments.
Reima Paivinen, a spokesperson for FinGrid, said: “RAO Nordic has stopped imports today at 01.00 Finnish times. The electricity system runs as normal and there is no threat of not having enough electricity in Finland.”
Meanwhile, Russia on 24th February launched its invasion of Ukraine. And, according to the latest updates, Ukrainians have also repelled multiple attempts by the Russians to cross a strategically significant river in the Donbas, inflicting heavy losses in the process, according to local officials and British intelligence. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy says “very difficult negotiations are underway” on the evacuation of the seriously wounded and medics from Mariupol and the city’s Azovstal steel plant. However, Russia will suspend electricity supplies to Finland from 1am on Saturday the supplier, RAO Nordic, said, amid rising tensions over Helsinki’s bid to join Nato. Earlier, the Ukrainian president reiterated an offer to hold direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Ukrainian president’s fullest public comments on the prospect of peace talks in weeks.