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Russian president Vladimir Putin “has his eyes” on the island of Gotland. This has been stated by Swedish commander-in-chief, Mikael Bydén, according to Globelynews media outlet.
İt is noted that concern was further ramped up, showing Gotland was just one part of Russia’s ambitions in the Baltics, in the last few days when Russia published a document suggesting that it needed to reassess the maritime borders in the Gulf of Finland.
Globelynews says that that draft decree by the Russian defense ministry, which has since been removed, proposed that Russia wanted to revise its borders with Finland and Kaliningrad and expand its territorial waters.
Gotland holds a strategically important location of being in the middle of the Baltic Sea and only 300km from where Russia’s Baltic fleet is based. Sweden joining NATO and giving it access to Gotland has significantly increased the alliance’s ability to deploy and sustain its forces in the Baltic Sea region, and this could make a decisive difference in the defence of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, and Poland.
According to Globelynews, because of its strategic importance, for most of the Cold War, Sweden maintained a large military presence on the island. But Gotland was demilitarized in 2005 in order to promote peace and cooperation in the Baltic region.
This gesture of goodwill was immediately tested by the Russians as, not long after doing so, Russian men who did not fit the usual Gotland tourist profile, began regularly visiting the island.
After Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, Sweden took significant steps to protect itself, reintroducing 150 permanent troops on the island in 2016. By 2018, Sweden had expanded the number of permanently placed troops to 400, equipping them with CV90 armored vehicles and Leopard 2 tanks. Air defense systems were also reactivated by 2021. The geographical distances in the Baltics are small, and if Russia seized Gotland in a crisis, it could dominate the Baltic Sea region. This would make it very difficult for the West to provide reinforcement to the Baltic states by sea or by air.
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