Important Takeaways:

• The strange, Zeppelin-like aircraft had been spotted on the Russian side of the frontier near Narva, a Russian-speaking Estonian town on the far edges of Nato territory.
• After some debate, Estonian police chose to ignore the blimp and hoped that would be the end of the matter. But the next day, it came back – this time marked with a “Z”, the symbol of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
• “We are seeing things like this nearly every week,” Egert Belitšev, the director-general of the Estonian police, said during a tour of Narva’s border checkpoint, the day before Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, arrived in the country for a security summit with Baltic and Nordic leaders.
• “It was intentionally made visible to everyone, to say: ‘We are watching you.’”
• “Two years ago we had 18 border incidents and this year we had 96,”
• “We have seen constant attempts to destabilize the situation.”
• In one of the more serious incidents in May, Russian border guards removed 20 buoys from the Narva river in the middle of the night in an apparent attempt to redraw the edges of Russia’s territory.
• “They did it at 3am – this is not something you do if it is a proper or normal thing,” Mr. Belitšev said.
• Moscow is also trying to push irregular migrants across the Estonian border, and across the Baltic Sea into Finland.
• Police say there have even been cases of Russians trying to smuggle drone parts across the Estonia border to support Putin’s war.
• “Russia will remain a threat for a very significant time, we don’t see any changes in the mindset of the Russian regime,” Mr. Tori said.
• “Russia’s understanding is that we will become more tired and they can outlast us in this war of aggression. Russia sees itself as being at war with Nato and therefore the ends justify the means.”

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