“The Baltic Sea will develop into NATO’s inland sea”. Estonia and Finland want to combine coastal protection and shut the Gulf of Finland from Russia

In accordance to the minister, Finland and Estonia have agreed that just after Finland will become a member of NATO, the countries will sign up for, amongst other issues, their coastal defense.

“We need to have to combine our coastal defense missile methods. The vary of the Estonian and Finnish missiles is increased than the width of the Gulf of Finland. This indicates that we will merge our missile protection and share all facts with each other,” stated Pevkur.

The minister stressed that this conclusion will make it attainable to shut the Gulf of Finland to Russian warships.

“The Baltic Sea will come to be NATO’s inland sea when Finland and Sweden be part of NATO. The predicament will alter,” he claimed.

In accordance to him, a new protection strategy for Estonia and the whole Baltic location will be drawn up in the autumn and subsequent calendar year, getting into account Finland’s accession to NATO.

Pevkur also said that the Estonian govt has determined to acquire new weapons well worth 800 million euros, like anti-tank missiles, new anti-tank missiles and HIMARS rocket launchers from the United States.

In addition, the Estonian Ministry of Defense and the Pentagon are negotiating the deployment of more weapons in Estonia.