"Putin must not win the war with Ukraine." This was stated in an interview on CNN with the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, emphasizing that "it is impossible merely to observe what Russia is doing in Ukraine."
"We are trying to do everything we can to support and help Ukraine waging this war. Putin should not win it," Kallas said in the TV program State of the Union.
At the same time, the Prime Minister of Estonia emphasized that NATO's strategy should focus on ending the war, which means that NATO should move from a deterrence posture to a secure defense posture.
"There are some capabilities that are too expensive for any individual state, but if we use them together here in Europe to protect our territories, we are stronger," she said. Countries must move towards isolating Russia "at all possible political levels."
When asked about Poland's offer to send peacekeepers to Ukraine, Kallas said that first there must be peace achieved, but Russia has no intention of doing so.
"We can only have a peacekeeping mission if we have peace, but if you look at what's happening in Ukraine, peace is not what we see there. There is a war going on, and I don't see Russia's intentions to do anything to achieve peace. "First, we must achieve peace," she said. "Sometimes, we have to be ready to use military force to achieve peace."
Kallas also compared the deportation that is going on in Mariupol to what Russia did in the 1940s when Estonians were put in "cattle cars" and sent to Siberia.
She said Putin was fueling the far-right narrative in Europe and the United States, creating a refugee crisis.
"He's putting a lot of migration pressure on Europe, and we also see the far-right in different countries is gaining strength."
"The enemy is Russia, not refugees," Kallas said.