Russia’s large-scale war of aggression in Ukraine has continued for two years. How difficult is the situation for Ukraine? What about the west? How does an Estonian expert see the current situation in Europe?
Security policy influencers gathered at the Munich Security Conference in Germany over the weekend. Correspondent Anna Karismo estimates that the determination to strengthen Europe’s security and support for Ukraine grew, but concreteness is lacking. Aid to Ukraine is stalled in the US Congress and Europe has not been able to deliver the ammunition it promised either. Russia seems to have taken an advantage in the war.
At the same time, an opinion poll says that Europeans’ faith in Ukraine’s victory is waning. In the countries surveyed, only ten percent of respondents believed in Ukraine’s victory, 20 percent believed in Russia’s victory.
President of the United States Donald Trump’s Name was Vladimir Putin’s and the opposition leader who died in prison at the weekend To Alexei Navalny along with the lips of the meeting guests in Munich. Trump has threatened that countries whose defense spending is not high enough will not receive protection from NATO in the future.
Ykkösaamu’s guest on Saturday is the deputy director of the Estonian International Defense Research Center ICDS, a security policy expert Kristi Raik. The broadcast on TV1, Radio 1 and Areena starts at 10:05. The interviewer is Seija Vaaherkumpu.
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