03.02.26 NEWS ... A total of 28 Estonian football clubs have sent a joint letter to UEFA calling for an end to "solidarity funds" paid by the organization to Russian clubs.

03.02.26 NEWS ... France's Minister for European Affairs Benjamin Haddad defended President Emmanuel Macron's suggestion to restarted communcation with Russia, saying Europe should have a seat at the table and can be a great power.

03.02.26 NEWS ... Police have initiated over 1,000 misdemeanor proceedings for the public display of banned symbols of aggression since April 2022, when the new law was introduced. But one lawyer says the law has caused more problems than it solves.

02.02.26 NEWS ... The bitterly cold weather in Ukraine, which has seen temperatures plunge to below –20 degrees Celsius, does not give either side an advantage on the battlefield, said Defense Forces Division staff officer Maj. Taavi Liias.

29.01.26 NEWS ... Estonia will withdraw from the secretariat of the Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS) intergovernmental organisation, saying it does not want to cooperate with Russia in any format. Russia's membership was suspended in 2022.

30.01.26 NEWS ... Estonia has allocated over €400,000, via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' humanitarian aid partners, to help Ukrainians, who are living without electricity and hot water during the coldest winter for 16 years.

30.01.26 NEWS ... Amid ongoing peace talks over Ukraine, nothing in Russia's actions suggests it wants peace, Defense Ministry official Gert Kaju said at a press conference.

30.01.26 NEWS ... An Estonian proposal to bar anyone who has fought in the Russian military during its invasion of Ukraine from entering the European Union has plenty of support from within the bloc, the union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.

29.01.26 NEWS ... Estonia will ban Russian and Belarusian citizens without permanent resident status in the country from buying property, as well as companies acting on their behalf, citing security risks.

27.01.26 NEWS ... According to the Estonian Center for International Development (ESTDEV), cooperation between Estonia and Japan on housing for Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) has also strengthened business ties between the two countries.

27.01.26 NEWS ... Russia plans to complete reconstruction work on the Ivangorod border crossing by the end of the year. The Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) say the crossing will not open again for motor traffic until the end of Russia's war in Ukraine.

27.01.26 NEWS ... Kamran Abilov, who became Russia's new Chargé d'affaires in Estonia in December, said that at present it is impossible to resume negotiations between the two countries on the ratification of agreements related to their common state border.

26.01.26 NEWS ... Chair of the Congress of Ukrainians in Estonia Vira Konyk has been awarded the prestigious Order of Princess Olga, III degree by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

26.01.26 NEWS ... In an interview with ERR, Estonian volunteer aid worker Triinu Perve, who is now in Kyiv, said the situation in the Ukrainian capital is very difficult. The lack of electricity means temperatures inside residential buildings have fallen extremely low.

26.01.26 NEWS ... A former leader of the pro-Kremlin KOOS party who fled to Russia in 2023 and is on a wanted list in Estonia claims he is now Moscow's top real estate agent, Postimees reported.

26.01.26 NEWS ... General Martin Herem says Kyiv has not adequately prepared its critical infrastructure for airstrikes and doubts Ukraine can meet its goal of destroying 50,000 Russian troops.

26.01.26 OPINION ... Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder is attempting to change Europe's course, from one of pressuring Russia, back towards the old mistakes, Minister of Foreign Affairs Margus Tsahkna (Eesti 200) said.

25.01.26 NEWS ... Breakthroughs in Ukraine-Russia territorial disputes remain unlikely, experts say, with decisions likely to be postponed, giving Russia room to issue ultimatums.

24.01.26 NEWS ... The eight Nordic and Baltic countries (NB8) called for Russia to stop military operations targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure and demanded an end to attacks on substations.

23.01.26 NEWS ... The cold weather has had a major impact on developments in Ukraine over the past week, leading to decrease in the intensity of military operations, said Gert Kaju, head of the Defense Readiness Department at the Estonian Ministry of Defense.

23.01.26 NEWS ... Liechtenstein and Estonia will work together on two projects in the education and health sectors in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region as part of reconstruction efforts in the country.

23.01.26 NEWS ... Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech before the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Switzerland, Thursday night was "unfair," Riigikogu foreign affairs committee chair Marko Mihkelson (Reform) said.

22.01.26 NEWS ... The Estonian government has opted to tighten the state border crossing procedures for Russian citizens working in diplomatic and consular missions.

22.01.26 NEWS ... The Estonian Refugee Council is now collecting urgent donations to purchase generators, fuel and other essential supplies for transit centers in the Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.

21.01.26 NEWS ... Ukraine's army is facing major problems with mobilization, to the extent that it may be affecting prospects for a just peace, even as Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian oil refineries are incurring huge costs on the invaders.

20.01.26 NEWS ... The war in Ukraine, nearly entering its fifth year, long since turned into a war of attrition.

16.01.26 NEWS ... U.S. filmmaker Parker Watt's documentary about Ukrainian artists in Estonia is being shown in a special one-off free screening in Tartu this January.

16.01.26 NEWS ... While Russia is attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure more intensively with drones and missiles, Russian units are now advancing more slowly than at the end of last year, said Col. Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) Intelligence Center.

16.01.26 NEWS ... Prime Minister Kristen Michal has criticized the results of a poll showing over half of Estonians believe Ukrainian flags should no longer be displayed on Estonian public buildings. Michal said the survey may be an attempt to influence public opinion and values, linking it to opposition party Isamaa.

15.01.26 NEWS ... Estonia's government is calling on the European Union to follow in its footsteps and introduce a Schengen area visa ban for hundreds of thousands of Russian combatants who fought in the war against Ukraine.

15.01.26 NEWS ... More than half of Estonian citizens in a recent poll do not consider it necessary to permanently display the Ukrainian flag on public buildings.

14.01.26 NEWS ... Estonia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Margus Tsahkna (Eesti 200) called the reported creation of an EU-Russia envoy "dangerous" and denied that plans exist for such a role.

14.01.26 NEWS ... The eastern Ukrainian town of Sloviansk briefly came under Russian occupation during the "shadow war" in 2014, before Ukrainian forces liberated it. Now, the enemy is again approaching the city.

12.01.26 NEWS ... The Ministry of the Interior imposed an entry ban to Estonia and the Schengen area last week on 261 Russian combatants who had taken part in the war of aggression against Ukraine.

09.01.26 NEWS ... Ukraine has been increasingly successful with air strikes against targets inside Russia. According to Col. Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) Intelligence Center, Ukrainian drone and missile strikes are likely to cause more damage to Russia in the near future.

08.01.26 NEWS ... Estonia is set to host the prestigious global Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) next year.

06.01.26 NEWS ... Iute Group, a banking group founded in Estonia, has won Ukraine's state-organized tender to create a digital bank. Final approval will be given later this month.

02.01.26 NEWS ... Russia wants to be able to tell its citizens that the goals of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine have been achieved this year. However, Moscow appears to have no interest in halting military action quickly, security expert Rainer Saks believes.

31.12.25 NEWS ... A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 days in prison for daubing the Estonian parliament (Riigikogu) building with "Z" and "V" symbols, which are banned in connection with Russia's war, and defacing a sign on the fence of the Ukrainian Embassy in Tallinn.

30.12.25 NEWS ... A man has been detained by police after reports that a "Z" symbol was painted on a column of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament) building in Tallinn in the early hours of Tuesday, December 30.

30.12.25 NEWS ... Members of an NGO collecting donations for Ukraine plan to file a civil lawsuit against its former chief Johanna-Maria Lehtme, accused of embezzlement.

30.12.25 OPINION ... Modern libraries do more than house books — as Ukraine shows, they defend freedom, build communities and can even save lives, writes Crisis Research Center CEO Hannes Nagel.

30.12.25 INTERVIEWS ... A world order where the United States sees itself as responsible for maintaining it no longer exists, while Europe must take far greater responsibility for its own security, International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) director Kristi Raik said.

29.12.25 NEWS ... On Monday, a Ukrainian court found Oleksandr Chernov, a whistleblower in the NGO Slava Ukraini corruption investigation, guilty of having owned illegal weapons, Postimees reports. Chernov considers the criminal case against him to be fabricated.

28.12.25 NEWS ... Estonian politicians do not expect the war in Ukraine to end until Russia seriously comes to the negotiating table, despite U.S. President Donald Trump saying the latest round of discussions is making progress.

27.12.25 NEWS ... As long as Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations are conducted through intermediaries, a suitable deal is unlikely to emerge, some experts in Estonia say.

27.12.25 NEWS ... An end-of-year phone call Prime Minister Kristen Michal held with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy points the way to future hard work needed to ensure Ukraine gets the best out of a US-led peace deal, the prime minister said.

24.12.25 NEWS ... The Estonian Football Association (EJL) will hold an extraordinary general meeting on January 21 to discuss UEFA's continued payment of "solidarity" funding for Russian football clubs.

22.12.25 NEWS ... Russia does not have the military power to achieve strategic or even operational success in Ukraine, said Lt. Col. Mattias Puusepp, head of the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) division staff planning department.

20.12.25 NEWS ... According to Estonian military experts, the planned €90 billion EU loan will enable Ukraine to hold out for a few more years. However, with the U.S.'s focus elsewhere, they believe EU has shown neither sufficient strength nor unity in support of Ukraine.