At the same time, it hopes that the ministry will receive the additional 100 million euros planned for Ukraine's military support next year. Then the support for Ukraine should not come at the expense of developing defense capabilities here.

The publication notes that it is likely that Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a security agreement in the coming weeks. According to it, Estonia promises to provide Ukraine with military aid amounting to 0.25% of the country's GDP until 2027. That's about 111 million euros a year.

"The country's budget strategy, agreed last fall, does not provide for such money. Consequently, it will be additional spending that will have to be discussed one way or another during the budget negotiations. Now the Defense Ministry has adhered to the government's instructions, according to which military support for Ukraine should be included in the ministry's regular defense budget", the report said.

"But it is also clear that we have fewer and fewer specific weapons and ammunition that we can send to Ukraine from our own stocks", Duneton said.

After Russia's full-scale invasion, Estonia sent a number of aid shipments to the Ukrainian Defense Forces - the country has revised its inventory and sent Ukrainians from Estonia the essentials. For example, Ukraine received a Javelin that would have gone bad in a few years in Estonia's warehouses. Estonia also sent transportable howitzers to Ukraine, as more and more mobile artillery is arriving to replace them.

"It is probably still very rare to look into the reserves of the Estonian defense forces to see what can be collected and sent to Ukraine in case of a big emergency. But in the big picture it has already completely exhausted itself", Duneton said.

• On June 3, it became known that Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna announced that the country would "very soon" sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine.