After the disconnection plans were announced, propaganda campaigns cropped up on social media and in printed leaflets in city streets that issued fake-news warnings about blackouts, severe energy shortages and sky-high energy bills for consumers.
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00:00Nearly three and a half decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity grid connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus and lean in more with their EU allies.
00:19The severing of electricity ties to oil and gas rich Russia is steeped in geopolitical and symbolic significance.
00:28This is the last remaining element of our reliance or dependence on the Russian energy system or Belarusian energy system.
00:38Stopped to buy any kind of energy resources from Russia and it was our response to the war in Ukraine which broke out in February 2022.
00:51EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and other dignitaries are expected for a ceremony on Sunday as a specially made nine meter tall clock in downtown Vilnius counts down the final seconds of the Baltic states electricity ties to Russia.