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estonia three have been accused Russian Border guards are infiltrating illegally nato area On a hovercraft without permission.
The country’s Interior Minister Igor Taro said border guards had entered estonia After crossing the Narva river by ship at around 10 am on Wednesday morning.
The Estonian Foreign Ministry will then summon the Russian chargé d’affaires alleged intrusion,
“Today, Estonian police and border guards detected an illegal crossing of a temporary control line estonia And Russia on the waters of the Narva River by three border guards of the Russian Federation,” the ministry said in a statement.
“Estonian border guard patrols responded to the border incident. After a short time, Russian border guards returned to Russian territory.”
Mr Taro said authorities were working to determine the motivation behind the incident. Moscow has not issued any clarification.
he told estonian world That the country was becoming concerned about the situation with Russia’s border guards.
“The quality of Russian border guard personnel has become extremely uneven in recent years,” Taro said. “For understandable reasons, they are suffering from staff shortages, with personnel brought in from other areas. This has been a recurring problem.”
He said the border guards returned to Russian territory before authorities could intervene.
“We have not been able to go deep into Russian territory to capture them,” he said.
estonia, member of nato And the EU shares a 294 km long border with Russia. It has a Russian-speaking minority.
For months, Russian drone And the planes appear to be entering NATO airspace campaign of deliberate provocation against the coalition they are supporting ukraineWar effort.
These include fighter jet incursions into Poland and Romania, meteorological balloons being sent from Belarus over the Lithuanian border and drones being spotted near airports in Denmark.
In September, three Russian military jets violated NATO member Estonia’s airspace for 12 minutes in an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion, according to the government. Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said this is the fourth time that Russia has violated Estonian airspace in 2025.
The Foreign Ministry said the intrusion involved three Russian MIG-31 fighter planes and took place over the Gulf of Finland. A ministry statement said the Russian charge d’affaires was summoned and given a protest note.
The intrusion came just hours before Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michael traveled to Brussels for a summit with EU leaders to decide whether to approve a €90bn (£79bn) loan to finance Ukraine’s war effort using frozen Russian assets.
During a press conference at the summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that all signs show that Moscow is not seriously interested in peace with Europe.
Warnings are growing across the continent that Europe should prepare for further Russian aggression.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said last week that Russia had “brought war back to Europe, and we must prepare for a war on the scale that our grandparents and great-grandfathers endured”.
The head of Britain’s armed forces said on Tuesday that Russia is a growing threat to Britain and that the country’s “sons and daughters” must be prepared to fight if attacked.
Chief of the Defense Staff Sir Richard said: “Sons and daughters. Colleagues. Veterans. …All have a role to play. To build. To serve. And if necessary, to fight. And more families will know what sacrifice means to our nation.”
“That’s why it’s so important that we explain the changing threat and the need to stay ahead of it.”