The mythical scenario was composed by the former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves for the Russian Federation - in case of Russia's attack on this Baltic country, Moscow could lose St. Petersburg and even Siberian cities. With such reflections, the Estonian shared in an interview with the Ukrainian "European Truth". In his opinion, for today "in the military sense - perhaps" there is no Russian threat. "And this is exactly the advantage of our membership in NATO. Article 5 (the NATO Charter) gives protection, "the former president is convinced. However, immediately threatened to warn the citizens of Russia, what awaits them, think of Moscow to attack a neighboring country. "Of course, Russia can attack Estonia, but soon after that it can lose even Omsk and Tomsk, not to mention St. Petersburg. They remember this, "- said Ilves. According to him, "the campaign to discredit (the republic) has not gone away, which has been going on for 27 years". "And in Ukraine, of course, understand what is at stake, because you have exactly the same problem from Russia with stories about the" Nazis "and" junta ". And this threat is really dangerous. In the West, there are "useful idiots", and there is still a media that picks it up, "the ex-head of state. In addition, the Estonian has made happy the inhabitants of our country, telling the world that aggression is not part of the "genocode of Russians" and believes that "Russia will also move towards democracy and the rule of law".
Ilves led Estonia from 2006 to 2016. The article of the NATO Charter mentioned explicitly states that an attack by a third party on a member of the North Atlantic bloc in Europe or North America, as well as on the territory of Turkey, is an attack on the alliance as a whole. The state attacked by the enemy has the right to individual or collective defense, including with the use of the armed forces of all 29 NATO member countries. Estonia joined the alliance in 2004.