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Tsahkna said Estonia's government estimates that it could take “three to four years” for Russia to prepare a “test for NATO.” Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are considered among the most ...
Yahoo News has obtained confidential strategy documents drawn up by the Kremlin that reveal Russia’s ambitious plans to exert its influence in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Estonia, as well as Latvia and Lithuania, have populations that embody the tense geopolitics currently at play with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Putin's war fuels tensions in Baltic states with ...
On 22 January 2022, the UK Foreign Office corroborated parts of the agent's account, stating that Russia was preparing a plan to "install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv as it considers whether to invade and occupy Ukraine," [311] with Yevhen Murayev, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament, alleged to be one of Moscow's potential candidates.
In January 2023, Estonian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mihkel Tamm announced Estonia's intention to seize $21.4 million in Russian assets in Estonia and deliver it to Ukraine. Estonia worked with European Commission on plans to seize Russian assets frozen in the European Union which are estimated to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Estonia's parliament has approved a proposal allowing the use of frozen Russian assets to pay compensation for war damage in Ukraine. Last week European Union ambassadors agreed to use windfall ...
As of May 2023, 130,000 Ukrainians entered Estonia as a result of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with 71,000 currently living in Estonia. [1] Around 200-300 Ukrainians apply for asylum in Estonia per week. [18] Estonia has sent the most aid to Ukraine per capita, around 0.8% of Estonia's GDP in 2 months, [19] and 1.5% of its GDP as of 14 ...
The ongoing build-out of the Baltic defense line is the next iteration in their beefed-up border security.