Estonia ready to send battalion to Ukraine peace mission

Estonian Prime Minister attends EU leaders' summit in Brussels, 26 June, 2025.
Reuters

Estonia has announced readiness to join a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, offering up to one battalion for future deployment.

At a press conference in Tallinn on Friday, Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal said his country is prepared to contribute a force of up to one battalion to a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, though he did not specify the number of troops.

NATO allies and Ukraine are working together to make sure security guarantees for Ukraine are at such a robust level that Russia will never try to attack again, NATO chief Mark Rutte said on Friday, adding that Europe and the United States would be involved in providing them.

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have all signaled support for troop participation in a post-war settlement as part of Ukraine’s coalition of the willing.

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