In April last year, in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, demonstrators lined up in front of the Russian embassy to protest the war crimes of mass sexual assault of Ukrainian women by the Russian army.

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[Compiled Chen Chengliang/Comprehensive Report] Estonia added more than 100 million euros in military aid last week. The total amount of military aid to Ukraine has accounted for about 1% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Aiding Ukraine to resist Russia angered Moscow.

As the two countries continued to fight against each other, Russia announced on the 23rd that it would expel the Estonian ambassador to Russia and decided to downgrade the diplomatic representatives of the two countries to chargé d'affaires ad interim.

The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that the Estonian ambassador Margus Laidre was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on the 23rd and ordered to leave the Russian Federation by February 7.

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The statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out that in recent years, Estonian leaders have been purposefully undermining relations with Russia, and have raised the policy of comprehensive hatred of Russia and the cultivation of hostility towards Russia to the height of national policy.

The statement emphasized that Estonia has taken a new and unfriendly step by radically reducing the size of the Russian embassy in Tallinn, undermining relations between the two countries.

In response, Russia decided to downgrade the diplomatic representatives of the two countries to chargé d'affaires ad interim.