Estonia made a statement regarding sending troops to Ukraine

Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur has said that the number of countries ready to send their troops to Ukraine as part of a possible peacekeeping mission exceeds six, as previously reported by the mass media. He said this in an interview with Radio Liberty.

According to him, there are indeed such states, but for their participation a number of issues need to be settled - from the Ukrainian request to the mandate, rules and conditions of the mission. Pevkur emphasised that more countries might join the coalition after these details are agreed upon.

There are definitely more such countries. There are simply issues that need to be resolved now," he pointed out.

He added that the planning process for the mission is ongoing.

When we can solve these issues, as well as some others - in particular, on military planning - then we will be able to see a much larger number of countries ready to be in Ukraine to rebuild the Ukrainian forces and focus, as I said, just on this, - emphasised Pevkur.

We will remind, on 10 April held a new round of negotiations of the so-called "coalition of the willing", which involves about 30 countries. According to AFP, after the meeting, it was noted that at least six states - including the UK, France and the Baltic states - expressed readiness to send their troops to Ukraine.