Lithuania’s government says it will boost security on its power grids with Poland ahead of planned decoupling from Russian energy system next month.
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00:00Lithuania says it's ramping up security around its power grid ahead of a planned decoupling
00:07from Russia's electricity grid next month.
00:10Lithuania's Prime Minister Gintotas Paluckas says the government has asked police forces
00:14to take over protection of the Litpol link.
00:18Security of the power link shared with Poland was outsourced to a private security company
00:22last month.
00:23The previous government had contracted them to guard some of the Litpol's assets until
00:27springtime.
00:29But Paluckas has opted to speed up that timeline to next week, assigning the country's public
00:34security service to take over.
00:37It's a private security company that has the most experience in protecting such critical
00:44and important objects.
00:45And it's a private security company that has been protecting some objects so far.
00:51Vilnius says it's been observing attempts by its opponents to disrupt the planned decoupling
00:56from the Russian power grid.
00:58Officials provided assurances that the country has enough reserves, and all scenarios evaluated
01:03indicates that there will be no power outages.
01:07They've also issued a message to those attempting to disrupt their plans.
01:29Lithuania plans to disconnect from the Russian electricity grid on the 8th of February.
01:35They will then take over the responsibility of running their own national grids for their
01:39power needs.