Overview
- Ukraine and Estonia signed a Joint Declaration on Enhanced Security and Defense Cooperation that commits both governments to security assistance, defense-industry cooperation, and work on multilayered missile defense.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed partners on immediate air-defense needs and expansion of the PURL program, a conduit for allied contributions and European anti-ballistic production.
- Drafts of Ukraine’s proposed Drone Deal — a plan to transfer wartime drone know-how and foster local production — are now under consideration in Estonia and Finland.
- Zelenskyy pushed allies to open all six EU negotiating clusters this summer and urged stronger sanctions, including new measures targeting Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ operating in the Baltic and North Seas.
- The Tallinn meetings tied into wider diplomacy ahead of EU, NATO and G7 decision points in June–July, building on E3 and NB8 coordination to bind Nordic-Baltic and other European partners to industrial and military support.