TheAPInterview: Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says the West should not underestimate Russia's military capabilities in Ukraine. Kallas said President Vladimir Putin's forces are in it for the long haul as the war enters its fifth month.
Some countries “were very skeptical two months ago,” Kallas said, but now there are “different signals coming from different member states ... that they are on board.”
As the war has dragged on, some in the West have suggested reaching a negotiated peace deal with Russia — even if it meant that Ukraine would give up territory. Kallas has warned against it. “For us, it is important to not make that mistake again like we did in Crimea, Donbas, Georgia,” she said. “We have done the same mistake already three times saying that, you know, negotiations, negotiated peace is the goal. ... The only thing that Putin hears from this is that ‘I can do this because no punishment will follow.’“And every time, every next time will be with more human suffering than the last one was,” she added.
Sanctions against Russia will take effect over time, she said, and one just needs to have “strategic patience.”
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