On 8 October, a German-Russian force based in Courland and led by General Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, launched an offensive to overthrow the Latvian government in Riga.

On 24 December 1919, General Laidoner of ordered Latvians to end the work of their civilian institutions in Walk and elsewhere in the Estonian-occupied territories.

On 18 March, General Balodis made a statement that as long as he was commander-in-chief, the Latvian army would not start any military action against Estonia.

Over the next few days, it was agreed that the border dispute over Walk would be settled by a court of arbitration chaired by British Colonel Stephen George Tallents.

By the end of June 1920, it became clear to Tallents that he would not be able to make a mutually satisfactory decision, and he set the boundary at his own discretion by 1 July.

The response of Estonian diplomats to these aspirations of the Latvian government was a categorical no – there were to be no discussions whatsoever about changing the borders around Ruhnu.

At the beginning of January 1922, Estonian Foreign Minister Ants Piip also spoke with the Swedish Ambassador to Estonia about Runö.

Ruhnu (Runö) has remained part of Estonia since 1919, when the Estonian authorities succeeded in taking control of the island by peaceful means, and before Latvia was able to do so.

Nikolai Blees, head of the Ministry of the Interior's Minorities Committee, won the trust of the locals because he communicated with the islanders in Swedish.

With that, Blees had played an important role in the fact that the people of Runö had agreed to remain part of the newly independent Republic of Estonia.

Ever since the end of the Walk crisis, the two neighbouring countries, Estonia and Latvia, have sustained good bilateral relations, despite some minor disagreements over less important issues.