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Politico (24 December 2024)

By Joshua Posaner

This snow-covered border bridge between two medieval fortresses in a Russian-speaking corner of Estonia might be where World War III starts.

The city of Narva, squeezed along Estonia's border with Russia, has been at the center of efforts to resist what it claims are near constant provocations from Moscow — from satellite navigation jamming, to snatched border demarcation buoys, blaring propaganda, surveillance drones and buzzing blimps marked with the 'Z' of Russia's armed forces.

"We are not intending to start a third world war, but we see the constant attempts to provoke us to do something which would have a higher impact," said Egert Belitšev, the director general of Estonia’s Police and Border Guard Board, on a snowy December afternoon in Narva.

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