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General Breedlove at Ämari Air Force Base: Estonia’s air space is part of NATO air spaceBreedlove, in Estonia for North-Eastern Europe Chiefs of Defence meeting, said the current assurance measures were sufficient and the Alliance was prepared to take further steps should the need…
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Nato must save us from Putin, warns Estonia army chiefBritain and its Nato allies must relearn how to fight conventional wars to see off the threat posed by Russia, the head of Estonia’s armed forces said yesterday.Major-General Riho Terras said that a…
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Kevadtorm becomes NATO’s Steadfast Javelin 1“NATO’s decision shows the credibility Kevadtorm has achieved over the years as well as displays strong support of Allies to Estonia and to the whole region,” Commander of Estonian Defence Forces,…
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DSACEUR discusses strengthened readiness measures in TallinnAs a part of these measures, NATO has deployed standing maritime forces to the Baltic Sea and to the Eastern Mediterranean. An Estonian Mine Countermeasures Ship, the ENS Admiral Cowan, recently…
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Ukraine’s wake-up call for NATOFor years leaders of this Baltic state were an irritant at NATO meetings, insisting to eye-rolling ambassadors from Western Europe that Vladimir Putin’s Russia was a revanchist power bent on…
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Veterans have much to give the communityAlmost twenty years ago – 1995 – the first Estonian troops were deployed on a mission to Croatia. At the time few thought that in the next twenty years we would be sending our soldiers to the most…
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NATO and U.S. European Command representatives meet in EstoniaAccording to Commander JFC Brunssum, General Hans-Lothar Domröse, it´s important that his headquarters acts as a hub for bringing together all the Northern region headquarters to make necessary…
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Exercise in Denmark centres on cooperation between Defence Forces and Estonian authorities“We are currently used to planning operations and following through with them primarily in Afghanistan, where national infrastructure and the status of the authorities is significantly different from…
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Deputy Chairman, NATO Military Committee: We are prepared to take further stepsAccording to Schissler, NATO is ready to update the defence plans, enhance exercises and send appropriate deployments if necessary. “All Allies, including Estonia, are protected by Article 5 of the…
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Commander of Defence Forces: Our deterrence is based on rapid response forcesWhile penning these lines, we do not know how the situation in Ukraine will develop. What we do know is that the Russian Federation aggression toward Ukraine is serious as well as that, for Estonia…