Having studied history at the university and worked primarily as a journalist and communications specialist in his native Estonia, Peeter has lived in Ukraine since 2023 - first in Odesa, now in Lviv.
Why are Russians hell-bent on destroying Ukraine and killing Ukrainians, fueled by TV lies and old myths? A new book asks what dark purpose that hatred serves.
Ukraine’s corruption investigators are back to charging million-dollar schemes after surviving a July attempt to strip their independence. But they’re working under a government that still has the administrative tools to derail sensitive cases and has demonstrated its willingness to use them.
Estonia’s foreign minister has invoked one of history’s most ominous diplomatic moments to warn about Friday’s Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska — comparing it to the 1938 Munich Agreement that greenlit Hitler’s expansion.
Why do Ukrainian men refuse mobilization, hide in their homes, and let their wives, sisters, and mothers do the everyday heavy lifting? Why does Ukraine’s mobilization system no longer work?
Russia just admitted something it has spent three years denying: the war is breaking its economy. According to Russian Finance Ministry data, Moscow’s federal deficit hit $62 billion by July — already 25% over its yearly target with five months still to go.
Ukraine’s government spent weeks trying to block a qualified anti-corruption investigator. Today, $2.3 billion in international pressure changed their minds.
Estonia’s NATO ambassador Jüri Luik warns that without Ukraine’s military power, Europe cannot contain the Russian threat or build a defense independent of US support.