While Baltic security thinking has long been dominated by assessments of the risk of Russian military aggression in Europe, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was still a shock in its brutality and scale. It has led the three Baltic states to further increase defence spending and to accelerate the building of national defence capabilities.
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In the fourth brief of the series, Martin Hurt analyses the achievements of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine and compares them with the NATO’s existing forces and capabilities.
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ICDS Non-Resident Research Fellow Anna Bulakh participated in the discussion “Development of voluntary territorial defence in Ukraine”, held at the Lithuanian Embassy in Kyiv on June 20, 2017.
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Dutch newspaper Trouw published an article on the role of various voluntary organisations in defence of the Baltic states.
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ICDS Research Fellow Kalev Stoicescu was interviewed by the Russian language VoA on “Kevadtorm” (Spring Storm) 2017 exercises of the Estonian Armed Forces together with Allied forces.
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