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Recent reports indicate that North Korea has dispatched its first group of soldiers to Russia, potentially to aid in the war against Ukraine. The South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) estimates that up to 12,000 North Korean troops may participate, trained in Russian military facilities and stationed in the Far East. While military experts express doubts about the effectiveness of ... ...

If the plan put forward by Zelenskyy is adopted, there is a good chance that the war will end in the near future with Russia obliged to seek peace, writes Kalev Stoicescu, chairman of the National Defence Committee of the Estonian Parliament. President Volodymyr Zelensky is on a visit to the US to unveil Ukraine's roadmap for victory, which he says will deliver rapid results in a matter of ... ...

Ukraine's FPV drones have become a nightmare for Russian forces, and it's only getting worse. Now, a fire-breathing "dragon" has emerged! The video shows a drone raining fire down on Russian trenches, reminiscent of the dragon Smaug spreading destruction in Tolkien’s book. It’s reported that this type of drone uses thermite as its weapon. Thermite is a pyrotechnic mixture of metal ... ...

On Thursday, May 23, Russian border guards removed 24 buoys from the Narva River, which Estonia's Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) had installed to mark shipping lanes. These buoys helped prevent ships from straying into the wrong waters and have been a longstanding feature of the river, writes Delfi news portal.  Eerik Purgel, head of the PPA's Eastern Prefecture, stated that Russia has ... ...

The Estonian government is seriously considering sending troops to western Ukraine to take on support roles, like medical services or logistics, so that Ukrainian forces can focus on frontline combat. The national security advisor to the president, Madis Roll, told to Breaking Defence that Estonia prefers doing this as part of a full NATO mission but is also open to smaller coalitions. ... ...

Estonian security expert Rainer Saks has calculated that Russia is stockpiling missiles as if preparing for a powerful strike in the near future. "The Ukrainian military intelligence agency GUR has published data on the Russian army's missile stockpile. According to their information, the Russian army has as many as 400 Onyx anti-ship missiles. These can also be used to shoot down ground ... ...

In the means of civilian rescue, the Kharkiv and Poltava regions of Ukraine are the most affected by Russian aggression. Due to the extreme situation of the rescuers in Kharkiv, everything wears out quickly, and there is a shortage of everything. At the same time, very little help reaches them. Karol Sepik, who has been in contact with Ukrainian rescuers since the beginning of the war and has ... ...

In a recent opinion piece, Professor Peeter Espak from Estonian University of Tartu questions why the Biden administration has been reluctant to fully arm Ukraine against the Russian invasion using all available legal means. Espak notes that Biden could have invoked the Lend-Lease Act "to send Ukraine any weapons so that Ukraine would not have to pay anything back afterward." Yet the ... ...