Russia suspends electricity supplies to Finland, a supplier said on Friday as tensions rise over Helsinki's NATO bid amid Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine.

'We are forced to suspend the electricity import starting from May 14,' said RAO Nordic, a subsidiary of Russian state energy holding Inter RAO.

'RAO Nordic is not able to make payments for the imported electricity from Russia.'

The firm is not directly faced with Western sanctions over the invasion into Ukraine, Montel News reports. However the outlet adds Inter Rao Lietuva - its 51% owned Lithuanian subsidiary - is.

MailOnline has reached out to RAO Nordic for more information.

It comes as Russia yesterday accused Finland of 'pushing above its weight' as the country signalled its intention to join NATO.

Putin's EU ambassador vowed to bolster defences on the Russia and Finland's shared 800-mile-long border if it decided to join the alliance.

Vladimir Chizhov said if Finland joined it would lead to 'certain military-technical measures, like improving or raising the degree of defence preparations along the Finnish border'.



A move would 'certainly necessitate rethinking of Russian defence posture' but not 'necessarily [involve] troops and tanks, but certain preparations like radars, perhaps', he told Sky News.

Yesterday a former British ambassador to Russia has said there may be 'much more Russian nuclear deployment in the Baltic' areas in response to Finland potentially becoming a NATO member in light of the war in Ukraine.

Sir Tony Brenton told BBC's Newsnight programme the Kremlin may think 'it expands their view of NATO as a threat to them'.

He said: 'They will be very conscious especially as this war winds its way to a conclusion that their conventional forces have not produced the results they hoped for.

'They will be increasingly inclined therefore to use their nuclear strength as a demonstration they need to be taken seriously.

'I think we need to resign ourselves to the likelihood of much more Russian nuclear deployment in the Baltic area as a response to Finland's accession to NATO, when it comes, and Sweden's very likely one as well.'

The Moscow Times || Dailymail UK

Hnnmm

Exactly what I would have done.....

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...they should also cut the excess 'fresh air' being supplied to Nigeria!

7 years Twitter account for sale, with 1k+ followers.

WhatsApp: O7O8-1OO-4821

Russia will equally feel the negative impact, revenue will drop.

Clean energy is what many countries are working towards achieving now

You dey chop my food, you still want fight me.
Na the food you dey chop dey give you strength to challenge, so make I stop to give you food and make we see how you go get strength take fight me_ Russia

johnglefury:
7 years Twitter account for sale, with 1k+ followers.

WhatsApp: O7O8-1OO-4821

...and na because of our 'yahoo boys' Elon Musk no wan buy twitter again!

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Anyway, make him come buy 'Nairaland' sha.....I can help him 'snap it up' for under $1.263,871 Billion.

(seun - the one after the decimal point na my commission from your side ONLY!)

#MuskShouldAcquireNairaland

This war is just revealing how big Russia is.

So imagine Finland, a European country cannot generate its own electricity which means they are on Niger Republic and Benin third world level.

Nigeria is better than a lot of countries but our inferiority complex won't let us see it.

They should not worry Nigeria will give them power, we have enough power here.

You mean Finland gets it's electricity from Russia!
Who are these people waking up to make miscalculations sef
Only God what else Finland gets from Russia

This war has revealed how important Russia is to Europe as for Finland she should get her electricity from USA na
I suggest Russia gives eu south and north Korea treatment,

Militarize the eu

Since they don't want peace

It funny how this European we think that are smart allow Europe to be turned into a war zone

While USA is far away surrendered by friendly neighbors before you quote me on this don't forget USA and her neighbours where all at war till they found peace. USA Annexed part of Mexico, invaded Canada etc

No body is a saint here

God1000:
Russia will equally feel the impact, revenue will drop.

Clean energy is what many countries are working towards achieving now

Actually Europe is crashing, answer your self, all this power, oil, gas, etc being stopped from Europe where are they going


Asia

Soon no manufacturer would want a higher cost of production and move to Asia

Kingpin1000:
You dey chop my food, you still want fight me.
Na the food you dey chop dey give you strength to challenge, so make I stop to give you food and make we see how you go get strength take fight me_ Russia

U must find alternative to support urself.
They actually will not died

The Finnish electricity network operator said it would be able to make do without Russian electricity.

'We're prepared for this and it won't be difficult. We can make do with a bit more imports from Sweden and Norway,' Fingrid's manager for operational planning Timo Kaukonen told AFP.

He said a little less than 10 percent of electricity consumed in Finland comes from Russia.

Ode, PouTin, Finland saw you coming, they were ready and the little 10% they get from you is replaceable with ease, you just scored your own goal again.

Blackmail and hostage-taking is like saying to your customers never to trust or rely on you.

This is the kind of threat that led Finland to NATO in the first place.

PouTin is just too dumb and overrated.

A Finnish Wars 2.0 is loading...


Russia really thinks it can fight a war on two fronts, while enduring further sanctions?

plaindealer:



Ode, PouTin, Finland saw you coming, they were ready and the little 10% they get from you is replaceable with ease, you just scored your own goal again.

Blackmail and hostage-taking is like saying to your customers never to trust or rely on you.

This is the kind of threat that led Finland to NATO in the first place.

PouTin is just too dumb and overrated.

You are the foolish person, how can you be selling guns to a thief and you expect security.
These three things has been harvested from your head by western media:
1. Cerebellum
2. Medulla oblangata
3. Cerebrum.
Let CNN think for you

All this NEWS or NOISE was factored into their plan before they made the decision to join NATO....

Putin's Russia is like a man rearing chicken waiting for Christmas to arrive....

He is not feeding the chicken because he loves the chicken,

He is feeding the chicken because he has other ideas at Christmas.

The Finnish parliament have weighed the Pros and Cons of countinous romance with Putin's Russia...

They decided that it is not worth it...... Hence their decision to join NATO.

The same nation that supply you electricity, oil and gas today would wake up tomorrow and Invade your nation because of their desire to restore the old Soviet Union.

Finland had lost vast land to Russia in the Winter War and they are not ready to loose more land to Putin's Russia in the future.

Know your enemies early and let them know that you know their evil Christmas plans.

Its good so these modern gay-loving and God-hating Europeans of today can start thinking out of the box like their forefathers which was what made them control the whole world

Wahala for who wan join NATO

Finland doesn't use much natural gas for electricity..It's an highly developed country.

franchasofficia:
Its good so these modern gay-loving and God-hating Europeans of today can start thinking out of the box like their forefathers which was what made them control the whole world

Like Isrealis right?

Den never see anything

Dalil8:
I still don't get why Russia hasn't placed troops, nuclear weapons & ICBMs in Cuba, Nicaragua & Venezuela yet.

Or form their own alliance with all NATO adversaries.

Since NATO has refused to stop moving towards Russia's borders. Russia should start moving closer to NATO's borders.

Because just one or two western country would be far richer than all alliances Russia can put together (with the exception of China and maybe India - ps: the latter countries are not even ready to form an alliance with Russia as they are scared of sanctions). Lots of money is needed to fight and sustain a war

seunny4lif:
What kind of headline is this?
Russia said it will suspended electricity, gas and oil supplies to Finland due to non-payment of Finland in Rubles since May 6th, according to Finnish PM.

Finnish PM said that Finland will not pay in Ruble even as many EU countries have already open up Ruble account.

Ok thank you for the clarification

baralatie:

Ok thank you for the clarification

I was also surprised with the headline.
Just like Russia informed Poland and Germany that its will cut off gas supplies through Poland pipelines because Ukraine stopped one route because Ukraine lost the territory meaning no revenue for Ukraine on that pipeline

Giving them electricity does not mean the country is ur colony