My message in an interview with @Newsweek:
— Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas) May 19, 2023
All of us must wake up to the new reality. Russia is a pariah state. There's no room for flirting with the idea of resuming business as usual. Our joint pressure against Russia must increase, not decrease.https://t.co/lFZrGYSX08
Older Article: Telegraph.co.uk
Kaja Kallas’s mother was just six months old when Soviet Union guards loaded her onto a cattle car and deported her to a prison camp in Siberia. She would not return home to Estonia until she was ten years old.
Today, her daughter is the prime minister of Estonia and Europe’s strongest voice against any appeasement of Vladimir Putin, who she calls a “terrorist” and a “criminal” who must face justice for war crimes in international courts.
No other country in the world has sent more military equipment to Ukraine as a proportion of GDP per capita than Estonia – a small Baltic nation of just 1.3m people, that borders Russia and only emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to independence in 1991.
Estonia was also one of the few nations to send arms to Kyiv before Putin’s illegal invasion on February 24.
She has warned Russians fleeing Putin’s draft in Ukraine that Estonia will reject their claims for asylum. Instead, they should stay home and topple their president, she says.
She wants the EU to ban Russian tourists and Ukraine to be given Nato membership. She is ploughing investment into Estonia’s army and for more weapons for Kyiv.
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