The three-party ruling coalition in Estonia has collapsed, Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced at a press conference in Tallinn on Monday. Michal, head of the pro-free market Reform Party, said he was expelling the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDE) from his coalition on grounds of differences of opinion.

In Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the ongoing war in Ukraine is considered the first line of defense. Providing aid to Ukraine is therefore existential because if Ukraine loses the war, Russia's troops would be back on the borders of the Baltic

Kristen Michal tells POLITICO that no country should shirk its obligations as U.S. casts doubt on NATO security.

Tanel Sepp, the Estonian ambassador at large for cyber policy, said in a wide-ranging interview that following the Trump administration’s recent pullback on funding and support for Ukraine, as well as for traditional European allies the European Union’s cybersecurity officials are left a bit stunned — but also contemplating action.

The difficulties are frustrating Western officials trying to combat what they say is a hybrid war by Russia against infrastructure in the West.

President Trump has called on NATO allies to increase their defense spending to 5 percent, with only three countries currently meeting the 2 percent threshold, while NATO Secretary General Mark

Latvia's defense minister says there's room for an even bigger NATO presence in his country. The remarks come as Russia resupplies and rebuilds its military bases in the Baltic region and NATO struggles with the question of how to reinforce the tiny nation in a crisis.

As Europe plans to up its defense spending, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian services believe that Moscow could be planning to launch a 'possible military confrontation with NATO.'