Children from several Kharkiv schools share a single underground school building. It has regular classrooms, an assembly hall ...

A British-commissioned RAND study explains why effective conventional defense could threaten Russia’s nuclear forces — and ...

According to Colonel Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center, Estonia sees no reason to change ...

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 ...

Estonia’s 50-50 estimate on Russian mobilization shows the limits of early warning. Low-risk security and surveillance measures should be implemented now. Costlier or escalation-sensitive steps should ...

If Canada’s JEF bid succeeds — and why shouldn’t it? — Joint Expeditionary Force could become one of the first tangible demonstrations of the middle-power strategy Carney outlined in Davos: countries ...

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.

In June 2025, Ukrainian air defense forces intercepted a drone over the Sumy region that was initially believed to be a standard Shahed-136 attack UAV. However, closer inspection revealed something ...

One year after the now-famous Hedgehog exercise exposed how vulnerable NATO units were to advanced drone tactics, the picture looks different. At this year’s exercise, drones, remote-controlled ...

Recommendation: clear a three-to-five-kilometer zone along the border, leaving drones nowhere to hide. Underground fiber-optic infrastructure has to be built to enable continuous drone surveillance on ...

Estonia’s foreign intelligence chief puts the odds of a new Russian mobilization at 50-50 and says CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow was also about NATO deterrence. CIA Director John ...