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Russia Urgently Halts Rail Crossings at Borders With Finland, Estonia, Latvia
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The Russian government issued an official decree ordering the temporary suspension of all movement across specific railway border checkpoints along its frontiers with Finland, Estonia, and Latvia starting July 1, according to Big Kyiv.
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The official decree states: “Temporarily suspend from July 1, 2026, the movement of persons, vehicles, goods, and cargo through railway checkpoints across the state border of the Russian Federation on individual sections of the state border of the Russian Federation according to the list in the appendix.”
On the border section between Russia and Finland, operations will cease at five specific railway checkpoints. These locations include Vyborg in the Leningrad region, Vyartsilya in Karelia, Lyuttya in Karelia, St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky in St. Petersburg, and Svetogorsk in the Leningrad region.
The suspension also impacts single railway checkpoints on the remaining border sections. On the border between Russia and Estonia, operations will be halted at the Pechory-Pskovskiye checkpoint in the Pskov region, while on the border between Russia and Latvia, the Pytalovo checkpoint in the Pskov region will be closed.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has been instructed to formally notify the governments of Finland, Estonia, and Latvia regarding the implementation of this decision.
Previously, the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) installed its first stationary anti-drone detection and monitoring equipment along the country’s border with Russia.
According to an Interior Ministry press release, these initial devices were deployed across three specific sections of the southeastern land border, spanning the area between the Estonia-Latvia-Russia tripoint and Luhamaa.
To complement these fixed installations, the PPA also introduced mobile radar systems built on trailers, which were reconfigured specifically to track and protect against low-altitude drone threats.
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