NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that Russia’s multifaceted attacks against the alliance’s European member states had failed to undermine NATO’s support for Ukraine or weaken the unity of its members. Speaking at a press conference, Rutte said Russia was continuing what he described as reckless and hostile actions against member states aimed at eroding their resolve.
Estonia accuses Russia of burning down defence company
He added that these attempts were “failing on the battlefield and in undermining the alliance’s unity and its support for Ukraine”. The NATO secretary general’s remarks came after Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna accused Russian intelligence agencies of being behind an arson attack targeting Milrem Robotics, a defence company in the capital Tallinn, in August.
Tsahkna said on X that security services had detained those who carried out the attack. Estonia’s Foreign Ministry also summoned the Russian ambassador to Tallinn over the incident, while the minister described the attack as part of a broader Russian campaign aimed at intimidating Kyiv’s allies.
Kremlin denies accusations as drone falls near Poland
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the Estonian accusations, saying: “These statements have no basis, lack prudence and logic, and have nothing to do with reality. Therefore, we cannot take them seriously, and we will not do so.” In a related field development, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Monday that a drone had fallen inside Ukrainian territory just two kilometres from the Dorohusk border crossing with Poland.
In a post on X, the Polish minister confirmed that the drone had not entered Polish airspace. He said an air-raid alert had been issued in the Lublin region of south-eastern Poland, coinciding with Russian strikes on areas of western Ukraine.
The Polish government accuses Russia of escalating its military operations near the border. The area around the Dorohusk-Yahodyn crossing has seen repeated drone attacks over the past two weeks, including an attack targeting a passenger train travelling from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to the Polish capital Warsaw.
