Estonia’s Minister of Defense, Hanno Pevkur, caught attention to the danger of Russian troops for Baltic countries after a possible stop of the Russian war in Ukraine, and has warned that Russian soldiers could move to the borders of the Baltic countries.
Estonia’s Minister of Defense said it was unlikely that most of the 600,000 Russian soldiers currently participating in the war in Ukraine return to normal life, taking into account the difference in wages between soldiers and civilians. In his opinion, it is most likely that half of these soldiers can be transferred to the borders of Russia with the Baltic countries, as reported .
“The fact that the Russian Federation and Belarus of Lukashenko have carried out important military exercises near the borders of the Baltic countries this year can indicate that Russia is focusing its attention on the issue of a possible invasion of the Baltic countries, despite the fact that these countries are NATO members,” he said.
Given this, the Ukrainian journalist and publicist Vitally Portnikov said in the Polish media that “a high fire in the Russian-Ukraine war, if it is not accompanied by real security guarantees for Ukraine and if it is only, say, a temporary measure to satisfy the ambitions of Donald Trump, can lead both to a great war in Europe and another great war in Ukrainian territory.”
Therefore, he pointed out that “there could be a hybrid option, in which a part of the Ukrainian territory controlled by the Russians would be used as a springboard for a second attack against Ukraine, and some displaced Russian troops, for example, closer to the borders of the Baltic countries, would be used to attack the territories of those countries.”
