“He was sure that he would take down the Ukrainian government within six days and also put Ukraine under his control, but he has been waging this full-scale war for four years with all these atrocities,” he said.
“We are very like-minded with Ukrainians, not only for geopolitical reasons, but also we don’t want to have any wars in Europe, but we have,” the minister added.
“We are all affected… we know exactly how to talk to Russia, we know that we must be very clear where the red lines are, what the miscalculations will be,” he said.
Tsahkna acknowledged that the situation may be different from an Indian perspective because India historically has had different relations with Russia, and also as it is a large country with different interests.
The Estonian foreign minister said Europe now sees Russia as an “immediate military and political threat”.