NEW YORK — Fears that Russia is preparing for a broader war with NATO aren't rattling Estonia's foreign minister, who told Fox News Digital that his country’s intelligence sees no signs Moscow is preparing for a full-scale invasion of the alliance."We have more and more this kind of panic in Europe that Russia will invade and will be full-scale aggressive against NATO and Europe and the Baltic states, Poland," Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said in an interview on the sidelines of the U.N.General Assembly in New York City before quipping, "But we don’t see it."Estonia shares a roughly 180-mile border with Russia and has long been among NATO’s most vocal members warning about the threat from Moscow under President Vladimir Putin.
But Tsahkna drew a distinction between preparations for a conventional attack and the growing campaign of drone incursions, sabotage, cyberattacks and other provocations that European governments have blamed on Russia.BATTLE-TESTED ZELENSKYY SOUNDS CHILLING ALARM ON WHERE PUTIN’S WAR COULD HEAD NEXT"Our intelligence, we see very, very deep into Russia, we don’t see any change," Tsahkna said."We don’t see that Russia is preparing a full-scale invasion or aggression.
The other side of our borders is pretty empty."Estonia Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna spoke with Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.(Fox News Digital)Tsahkna, who served as Estonia’s defense minister from 2016 to 2017, contrasted the current picture with what he saw a decade ago, when he said roughly 120,000 Russian troops were positioned across the region’s borders and could be ready to move within 48 hours."It’s empty," he said of the Russian side of Estonia’s border today.His assessment comes as European officials grapple with a series of Russian airspace violations and suspected hybrid attacks, including a Russian military helicopter that crossed into Polish airspace Wednesday.
Poland’s military said the incursion appeared...