The government decided on Thursday in principle to suspend a €500 million infantry fighting vehicle procurement program and instead redirect the funds to strengthening drone defense, air defense, and situational awareness.

The recent threat alerts may have caused some negative emotions, but they also raised many relevant questions, writes Hedi Arukase, Head of the Population Protection Department at the Ministry of the Interior.

If a curious reader looks at world events through a wide‑angle lens, they will see several developments that do not immediately form a coherent picture, writes Vladimir Jushkin, director of the Baltic Center for Russian Studies.

In this special, slightly longer than usual episode of Postimees, our guest was President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, with whom we talked about all sorts of different crises that have recently flared up in the world. What will become of Ukraine? What will ...

In Estonia’s drone debate, the most important question is not why some nuisance drones are not shot down in peacetime, but whether the state plans to defend the capital, the islands and critical infrastructure at all in wartime. The answer to this ...

Recent events with stray drones have made society ask whether and how we would actually be prepared to repel the aircraft that are increasingly being used in modern warfare. Can we detect them? Do we know how to shoot them down? Why haven't we done s...

Coop Eesti Keskühistu and Finland's largest cooperative retail group, SOK, have signed an agreement for Coop to acquire Prisma Peremarket and its 13 stores in Estonia.

During the holiday week, Eesti Pank and the Ministry of Finance published economic forecasts, both of which are more pessimistic than earlier projections. According to these forecasts, the state budget will be in deficit and Estonia’s debt will gro...

On April 1st, the international April Fools’ Day, US President Donald Trump said in an interview with the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph that he is considering the withdrawal of the United States from NATO.

On Wednesday evening in Pärnu County, Estonian Defence Forces soldiers blew up the Halinga railway viaduct on the Tallinn–Pärnu highway. The operation gave the soldiers an opportunity to practice bridge demolition and significantly reduced the ti...

«The strong do what they want, while the weak suffer what they must,» are said, according to the ancient historian Thucydides, to have been the words of the Athenians to their neighbours, the people of the small state of Melos, before the complete ...

When a Ukrainian drone crashed into a field in Tartu County in 2025, leaving a large crater, Estonians asked the Ukrainians to equip their drones with a kill switch - an automatic self-destruction system—for future operations.

A new analysis by the British defence think tank RUSI warns that US and Israeli stocks of precision-guided munitions are shrinking at an alarming rate in the war against Iran. At the same time, Western defence industries are unable to remedy critical...

The Estonian Defence Forces reported an air threat near Estonia’s borders during the Tuesday night due to Ukrainian drones attacking Russia, several of which also entered Estonian airspace. At least one drone crashed in Tartu County, and officials ...

This spring has brought a situation into international politics that can truly be called a strategic crossroads, writes former politician and military officer Jüri Toomepuu.

In the field of warfare, where drones are being developed rapidly and their range and capabilities are constantly expanding, our country cannot rely on some major company’s «all-in-one solution». Instead, our security agencies together with indus...

Russia bade farewell to democracy and freedom long ago. With every year of Vladimir Putin’s rule, the arsenal of tools for state control is expanding, and the intensity of their use has effectively brought the country to the brink of civil war. The...

Estonia's first direct military and material damage from Russia's aggression against Ukraine was quite cartoonish, but at the same time, it also highlighted our areas of concern.

In the early morning of 25 March, a Ukrainian drone coming from Russia struck the chimney of the Auvere power plant in Narva. Postimees and Estonian Academy of Security Sciences security expert Erkki Koort writes about the possible consequences and l...

Wars, especially world wars, are easy to start. Ending them in today’s world, teeming with policemen and auxiliary policemen and clearly dominated by arms manufacturers and power-holders in various countries who act in the aggressors’ interests, ...

Difficult times lie ahead in agriculture, which is why it is important that the messages voiced at the demonstration reach the politicians.

Estonia’s foreign policy should be based on three fundamental principles in order to protect Estonia’s interests and security as effectively as possible, writes Jaak Madison (Centre Party), member of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Co...

PARTIES’ VOX POPULI. On Monday, the presidential election ball started rolling in connection with an interview given by Lauri Läänemets. How can the campaign be conducted in such a way that dignified candidates retain their dignity and Estonia ge...

Although the Reform Party has increasingly shown efforts to improve its rating, the situation is bleak a year before the parliamentary elections. Minister of Finance Jürgen Ligi, who is undoubtedly the government's most outspoken politician, but als...

All these 26 years that Vladimir Putin has in practice been ruling Russia single-handedly, he has been waging an unceasing battle to bring the country’s media under control, but now the screws have been tightened even further, writes columnist Andr...