Officials have claimed NATO may close the Baltic Sea to Russian shipping in the event of a Russian attack. Estonia does not yet have all the capabilities needed to close the Gulf of Finland together ...

News, views and in-depth interviews from NATO’s North-Eastern flank. The Baltic Sentinel reports and analyses defence and security developments within and beyond the Baltic Sea area.

Estonia should consider acquiring light jet aircraft to counter Russia’s new generation of long-range drones, which are ...

Deeper ports, stronger bridges and expanded railways are improving NATO’s ability to reinforce its northern flank. Across Scandinavia and Finland, new military facilities and longstanding civilian ...

On Monday evening, October 5, armed, masked individuals acting aggressively attempted to smuggle a group of illegal migrants into Latvia from Belarus, the Latvian armed forces said. They then entered ...

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News, views and in-depth interviews from NATO’s North-Eastern flank. The Baltic Sentinel reports and analyses defence and security developments within and beyond the Baltic Sea area.

News, views and in-depth interviews from NATO’s North-Eastern flank. The Baltic Sentinel reports and analyses defence and security developments within and beyond the Baltic Sea area.

According to Colonel Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center, Estonia sees no reason to change its threat assessment, even though several Western countries have recently ...

That is the central warning of Conventional Logics, Nuclear Fears: Inadvertent Escalation Risks Between NATO and Russia, a RAND Europe report published September 10, 2026. Its most consequential ...

Former Estonian Ambassador to NATO Jüri Luik says the Russian threat must be taken seriously, not dismissed as rhetoric. Whether war breaks out in one year, three years, or five years is almost ...